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Sugar Coffee Act
A law placing an act on sugar, molasses, and other products. Coffe Act is an act of Parliament of Great Britain concerning the adulteration of coffee. -
Stamp Act
Commercial documents to carry an officlial stamp showing that the tax had been paid. Britian started this act to pay off debt to pay of the French and Indian War. The colonist began to boycott and started the secrect society, The Sons of Liberty. -
Quartering Acts
All colonists had to house all Bristish soliders and they were trageted. -
Stamp Act Congress
Was an attempt for colonist to express their feeling about the Stamps Acts. -
Declatory Act
Allowing Parliment supreme authority to govern colonies. It cause agruments between Parliment and the colonists. -
Townshed Acts
Placed duties on numerous imports. The colonists refused to pay and a new secrect society was formed, they are known as the Daughters of Liberty. -
Boston Massacure
When the British soldiers arrived in Boston, tensions erupted into violence. The people of Boston was outraged at what came to be known as the Boston Massacre. -
Tea Act
British government granted to company a monoploy on the importation and sale of tea in the colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
A political protest conducted by the Sons of Liberty in protest of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773. -
Intolerable Acts
Set of laws to punish Massachusetts and clamp down on resistance in the other colonies. -
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First Continental Congress
A meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies at Carpenter’s Hall in Philadelphia early in the American Revolution. -
Second Continental Congress
America’s government during the Revolutionary War. The meeting was in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia. -
Battle of Concord
Another first battle of the revolutionary war. This battle was fought in a village named Concord a few miles northwest of Boston. -
Battle of Lexington
One of the first battles of the revolutionary war. This battle was fought in the village of Lexington, a province of Massachuet Bay. -
Signing of Declaration of Independance
A statement announcing that the thirteen colonies were free of Great Britain and were independent.
