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A tax on imported goods such as sugar and molasses | Sugar act 1764 |
A tax issued by the British on advertisements, diplomas, legal documents, newspapers and playing cards | Stamp Act 1765 |
Taxes on common household items such as tea lead and glass | Townshend Acts 1767 |
British troops were fed and housed by the colonists against the colonist's will it was a law | Quartering act (1765) |
A violent revolt between the colonists and British Troops. It was the fault of the colonists. | Boston Massacre(1770) |
When representatives from the colonies met in Philadelphia to discuss their grievances and consider their options in dealing with the British | First Continental Congress (1774) |
A meeting that took place in Philadelphia with the idea of declaring independence from Britain and estalishing a continental army | Second Continental Contress (1775) |
This act extended Quebec's boundary south to the Ohio river overriding the claims of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Virginia to the disputed western lands | Queb Act (1774) |
The law that excused the company from paying duties and sell tea directly to American Agents | Tea Act (1773) |
Laws passsed by the British to punish the colonists because of the Boston Tea Party | INtolerable Acts (1774) |
Colonists dumped tea into the Boston harbor in protest of British taxes | Boston Tea Party ( 1773) |
General Gauge decided to seize rebel millitary supplies stored in Concord. Colonists had watchmen set up Paul Revere and others alerted the colonist housholds. " The British are coming" WHen the two sides met the shot heard arond the world took place | Battle of Lexington and Concord (1775) |