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Sugar Act
The Sugar Act was repeated in 1765 due to the over whelming from the colonist -
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Stamp act
The Sugar Act was repeated in 1765 due to the over whelming from the colonist -
Stamp Act
However the British Parliament instead impose what is known as the Stamp Act -
Quartering Act
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The Quartering Act is a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British -
Declaratory Act
When Britain repealed the Stamp Act, 250 years ago this month, the Colonies celebrated, but that same day the king signed another law that ultimately became even more detested. -
Townshend Act
A series of measures introduced into the English Parliament by Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend in 1767, -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under attack by a mob. -
Boston Tea Party
The Sons of Liberty and the Boston Tea Party.In 1771, a group of people British oppression by attacking merchant ships in Boston Harbor On the night of December 16, 1773, -
Quebec Act
1774 Quebec Act, passed by the British Parliament to institute a permanent administration in Canada replacing the temporary government -
Continental Congress
On September 5, 1774, delegates from each of the 13 colonies except for Georgia (which was fighting a Native-American uprising and was dependent on the British for military supplies) -
2nd Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the spring of 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. -
Edenton Tea Party
On October 25, 1774, Mrs. Penelope Barker organized, at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth King, fifty-one women in Edenton, North Carolina. -
Ride of Paul Revere
on the evening of April 18, 1775, Paul Revere was summoned by Dr. Joseph Warren of Boston and given the task of riding to Lexington, Massachusetts, with the news that regular troops were about to march into the countryside northwest of Boston. -
2nd Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the spring of 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. -
The Declaration of Independence
A declaration of independence or declaration of statehood is an assertion by a defined territory that it is independent and constitutes a state -
Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation, formally the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, was an agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served as its first constitution -
Shot heard around the world
Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The phrase comes from the opening stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson's
