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Causes of the Revolution

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  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    Required colonists to pay a tax, represented by stamps, on any kind of paper.

  • Boston massacre

    Boston massacre
    Seven british soldiers kill five, wound six colonists.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    American political & mercantile protest.Colonists threw tea into the harbor. "No taxation w/ out representation."

  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts
    Four laws put in place by Britain to punish Massachusetts colony for Boston Tea Party.

  • Common Sense

    Common Sense
    47 page pamphlet created by Thomas Paine to persuade colonies to try to break away from Britain.