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Proclamation of 1763
Britain banned the colonization of land west of the Appalachian mountains. This upset colonists greatly because they were growing in number, but they weren't getting any new land to compensate, -
Sugar act
In an effort to stop colonists from smuggling foreign-made molasses into to the colonies, Britain halved the tax on the molasses.
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Stamp Act
The stamp act required colonists to buy stamped paper for every legal document, licence, and newspaper. There was also special "stamp duties" imposed on packages of playing cards and dice.
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Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre started out with colonists trowing snowballs at soldiers. They were taunting British, trying to get them to shoot at them. A shot was heard, one not taken by British soldiers, and so the British open fired. This event was used as propaganda against to British by patriots. -
Boston Tea Party
Britain banned colonists from buying tea from anywhere but Britain to help struggling English Tea Companies. The Patriots were outraged, so they decided, like perfectly sane people would do, to dress up as natives and dump tea into Boston Harbor. They dumped over 92,000 pounds of tea into the water, which cost Britain £9,659.
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The Intolerable Acts
In response to the Boston Tea Party, Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts.
They shut down Boston Harbor, invoked the quartering act, which put British soldiers in vacant private homes, and appointed General Thomas Gage as governor of Massachusetts, who, to keep the peace, placed Boston under martial law.
The colonies assembled the First Continental Congress, and in September 1774, 56 delegates met in Philadelphia and drew up a declaration of colonial rights.
