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Stamp Act
This was a tax on paper goods and the colonies did not like this. They boycotted British goods and started riots. -
Boston Massacre
Seven British soldiers shot at a crowd of eleven colonists, killing five and wounding six. -
Boston Tea Party
American Protest on the British Tea Tax. The colonist boarded a British ship and dumped the crates of tea into the Boston Harbor. -
The Intolerable Acts
Four laws passed by the British parliament to punish Massachusetts for the event of the Boston Tea Party.
Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Justice Act, and The Quartering Act. -
Common Sense
Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine stating how the colonists need to fight for their freedoms and how the new government should be ran.