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The Stamp Act
Taxed printed papers, including legal documents, newspapers, and playing cards. -
Boston Massacre
British troops in Boston fired on a jeering crowd. -
The Boston Tea Party
A group of men, disguised as Native Americans, boarded three tea ships in Boston Harbor. They broke open the chests and dumped the ships cargo into the sea to protest British control of the tea trade. -
Intolerable Acts
so named by the colonists, included closing the port of Boston until colonists paid for the tea dumped during the Boston Tea Party, restricting town meetings in Massachusetts, and allowed for British soldiers to be housed in private homes. -
The Albany Plan
To discuss the problems of colonial trade and the danger of attacks by the French and their Native American allies. -
The First Continental Congress
A set of laws to punish the colonists for the troubles in Boston and elsewhere. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
The Start of the American Revolution
Started with the Battles of Lexington and Concord. -
The Second Continental Congress
The British government continued to refuse to compromise, let alone reverse, its colonial policies. -
Declaration of Independence
A statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress. -
The End of the American Revolution
Ended when the thirteen colonies split from the British Empire.
