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French and Indian War Ends
-Great Britian is in Debt
-Taxes are imposedto help economy
-No voice in Parliment ('TWOR")
-Taxation Without Representation -
The Sugar Act ( The American Revenue Act )
-Parliment passed a modified version of the Sugar Molasses Act (1733) which was about to expire. -
Stamp Act of 1765
-Tax stamps on all legal documents
-The colonist complained and the British got rid of the Stamp Act -
Boston Massacre
British troops fired into a crowd
killed 5 colonist -
The Gaspee Affair
The Sons of Liberty were active through out the colonies, and the British officers charged with enforcing the customs and laws and The Stamp Act were becoming aggressive. -
Boston Tea Party
tea is taxed
cargo is dumped into boston harbor -
"Intolerable" Acts
-Boston Port Act
-Closed Boston Harbor -
"The Shot Heard Around the World"
-Minutemen and Redcoats clash at Lexington and Concord
-Britians Gerneral Gage had a secret plan to capture Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington
-In Concord they would seize gun powder
-Paul Revere found out (along with other riders) and went to the countryside to warn the people "The British Are Coming" -
Battle of Bunker Hill
American troops tried to bombard British ships in Boston Harbor.
Americans took the British down!!!! -
The Virginia Declaration of Rights
A Declaration of Rights made by the representitves of the good people of Virginia, which rights do pertain to them and there posterity, as the basis and foundation of government. -
Declaration of Independence was written
Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence
