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Sugar Act
Like the stamp act, the sugar act is a tax an a popular item used by the colonies that are taxed by New England thinking it will make them more money -
Stamp Act
The stamp act was a tax on stamps for New England to make money after they lost so much in the French and Indian war. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts were 4 acts that are suppose to exert authority over the colonies through suspension of things they would use or do almost everyday -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a conflict between the colonists and a group a redcoats in the town square. Colonists were throwing snowballs which moved on to bricks and rocks at the redcoats.Five colonists were shot and killed. A theory of why they shot them was that there was a house fire in the town square and when someone yelled there was a fire the red coats thought it was their captain telling them to fire upon the colonists -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a group of colonists dressed up as Indians that rebelled and went in the Boston Harbor and dumped out ninety two thousand pounds of tea into the harbor -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British Government. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The battles of Lexington and Concord is where the British marched to Lexington to take weapons, ammunition, and bombs away from the colonists. Luckily, colonists saw the redcoats battled with them in an open field. After 5 dead colonists and other wounded the colonists ran away into woods and tall grass to hide. The British marched towards them and then the colonists popped out, Massacring the British. In the end colonists won and kept the cities and weaponry. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
The battle of Bunker Hill was an all out brawl by the Colonists against the British in Massachusetts. Sadly, the British defeated the Americans in the battle -
Signing of Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is one of the most important events in U.S history if not the most important where the colonies finally get there freedom over Great Britain and America is in its early development
