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Events Leading Up to the Revolutionary War
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Sugar/Coffee Act
Britain taxed sugar, molasses, and coffee, used to pay off their war debt -
Stamp Act
taxed all legal and commercial goods used to pay off England’s war debt -
Quartering Act
stated that colonists had to house British troops -
Stamp Act Congress
meeting to devise a protest against British taxation -
Declaratory Act
stated Parliament had supreme authority over the colonies -
Townshend Acts
taxed imported goods such as paint, glass, paper, lead and tea -
Boston Massacre
incident in 1770 in which British Troops fired on and killed American colonists -
Tea Act
colonists were forced to only purchase tea from the East India Company, which was owned by Britain -
Boston Tea Party
colonists boarded ships and dumped the tea cargo into the harbor as a protest to England for taxing their tea -
Intolerable Acts
the British closed the port of boston until the colonists paid for the destroyed tea, altered the Massachusetts charter to ban town town meetings, replaced the elected council with an appointed one, increased the governor’s power over the colonists, protected British officials accused of crime from being tried by colonists, and allowed British troops to be housed in private dwellings. -
First Continental Congress
meeting of delegates who voted to ban trade with Britain until they removed the intolerable acts -
Second Continental Congress
America’s government during the Revolutionary War -
Battle of Lexington
location was chosen because British spies found out John Hancock and Sam Adams were there -
Battle of Concord
location was chosen because British spies found out that the Massachusetts militia was storing arms and ammunition there -
Signing of the Declaration of Independence
signing of the document that declared AMerican Independence from Britain
