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Stamp Act
Parliament taxes colonies for printed materials -
French and Indian War
British vs. French/Indians, British victory (1754-1763) -
Townshend Act
Created to punish New York for not following the 1765 Quartering Act, and to allow the British Parliament to tax the colonies.
Taxes on; tea, paint, glass, oil, lead and paper -
Boston Massacre
British Army kills 5, murders 6 civillian -
Tea Act
Created to reduce the large amount of tea held by the East India Company in order to help the company survive. -
Boston Tea Party
Political protest.
Dressed up as American Indians and destroyd ships carrying tea, in anger of the Tea Act. -
1st Continental Congress
Called into response of the Intolerable Act.
Discussed Britains trade boycott and their rights.
Petitions to King George lll to make amends of the hardship. Petition fails. -
Intolerable Acts
Purpose was to punish the colonists after their outbreak.
Took away self-governing. -
Lexington and Concord
First engagements of the Revolutunary War -
2nd Continental Congress
Managed war effort, and wanted more freedom.
Declaration of Independance created on July 4th, 1776. -
Publishing of Common Sense
Thomas Paine wrote this in agreement with the Revolutiuon and in favor of independance.
