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Stamp Act
the act required the colonists to pay taxes on stamps so every piece of paper that was printed had to have a stamp on it so it would then be taxed Exs. papers, documents,and playing cards -
Boston Massacre
seven British soldiers fired into a crowd of volatile Bostonians,killing five,wounding another six, and angering an entire colony -
Boston Tea party
to protest against "no taxation without representation" they boarded the ships and threw the crates of tea into the harbor the British parliament considered the protest an act of treason -
The Intolerable Acts
a series of 4 laws passed by the British parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party -
common sense
made a clear case for independence and directly attacked the political,economical,and ideological obstacles to achieving it