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Proclamation of 1763
issued by King George III It recognized
the Indians’ right to the land and it did not allow colonists to
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Boston Massacre
This deadly riot resulted in five colonists being killed
the incident was used as propaganda. killed: Attucks, Gray, Caldwell. Samuel Adams and John Adams
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Tea Act
Parliament passed the Tea Act which made the British
East India Company the only company allowed to sell
tea to the colonies colonists were unhappy that they were forced to pay import taxes to Britain www.bostonteapartyship.com/the-tea-act -
midnight ride
Revere, Cheswell and dawes. Paul Revere was instructed to ride to Lexington, Massachusetts, to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were marching to arrest them http://www.bostonteapartyship.com/