Events leading to the Declaration of Independence

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  • Stamp Act

    A tax on colonists for every piece of paper they used

  • Boston Massacre

    A pre-revolutionary incident; British soldiers fired into a rioting mob killing five American civilians.

  • Boston Tea PArty

    A raid on three British ships in the Boston Harbor; Boston Colonists, disguised as Indians, threw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the Boston Harbor as the protests against British taxes began.

  • First Continental Congress

    Delegates from each of the 13 colonies, except Georgia, met in Philadelphia as the first continental congress to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts.

  • The Declaration of Independence

    The declaration was written by Thomas Jefferson and adopted by the second continental congress.