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American Revolution
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Sugar/Coffee Act
Law placing tax on sugar. molasses and other products shipped to the colonies. -
Stamp Act
Law requiring all legal and commercial documents to carry and official stamp showing that a tax had been paid. -
Quartering Act
Act requiring the colonists to quarter, or house, British soldiers and provide them with supplies. -
Stamp Act Congress
It was a meeting held between October 7 and 25, 1765 in New York City, consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America; it was the first gathering of elected representatives from several of the American colonies to devise a unified protest against new British taxation -
Declatory Acts
The American Colonies Act 1766 (6 Geo 3 c 12), commonly known as the Declaratory Act, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act. -
Townshend Acts
a series of acts passed, beginning in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. -
Boston Massacre
A street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry. -
Tea Act
The final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on her American colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
A raid on three British ships in Boston Harbor in which Boston colonists, disguised as Indians, threw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against British taxes on tea and against the monopoly granted the East India Company. -
Intolerable Acts
MARCH-JUNE Were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. -
First Continental Congress
SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER A meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Second Continetal Congress
A convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare, the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Signing of Declaration of Independence
Document that declared American independence from Britain
