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Sugar/Cofee act
Parliament taxes sugar, molasses, and coffee. -
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Colonial Timeline
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Stamp Act
All formal documents are required to have a stamp that shows it has been taxxed. -
Quartering act
Required colonists to house British soldiers. -
Stamp Act Congress
A meeting held by the colonists consisting of a few representatives. It was a unified protest against Great Britain. -
Declaratory Acts
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Townshend Acts
It imposted taxes on glass, lead, paper, paints, and tea. The act was repealed but the tax on tea stayed. -
Boston Massacre
British soldiers open fired on colonists. -
Tea Act
A tax on tea that was the final straw to the colonists. -
Boston Tea Party
Colonists dressed as Native Americans and dumped crates of tea. -
Intollerable Acts
A set of laws put in place my parliament as a direct attack on the colonists right. They wanted to make the colonists pay off the tea. -
1st Continental Congress
A meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies who met in Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia. -
2nd Continental Congress
A convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that met in Philadelphia soon after the war begun. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
The first military engagements of the revolutionary war near Boston. -
Signing of the Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is approved.
