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Stamp Act
The act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards -
Boston Massacre
It started off as a snow ball fight and turned into seven British soldiers firing into a crowd of Bostonians, killing five, wounding another six, and which angered an entire colony. -
Boston Tea Party
Protest against tea. The colonist threw boxes upon boxes of tea into the harbor. -
The Intolerable Act
This was a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party -
Common Sense
Thomas Paine wrote 'Common Sense' to rally colonists around the idea of independence and the establishment of a post-war republic.