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Sugar Act
The Sugar Act mostly hurt the shipping business and it is tax on sugar. -
Stamp Act
The Parliament approves another tax law. The Stamp Act put tax on paper items, like newspaper, legal documents, and even playing cards. -
Townshend Act
Parliament passed several new tax laws call Townshend Act. The Townshend Acts taxed imports, such as glass, tea, paint, and paper, that were brought into the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was street fight. A lot of colonists were killed. -
Repeal of the Townshend Act
This is when they repealed all of the taxes but not the one on tea. Still most of the colonists would not by the British tea. -
Boston Tea Party
The Parliament passed the tea. The people dumped all the tea into the harbor. -
Coercive Act
It was a series of four measures that Parliament passed in response to the Boston Tea Party. -
1st Continental Congress
This petition reminded the king of the colonist's basic rights as British citizens. -
Lexington and Concord
They had people called the minutmen because they were said to be ready to fight in a minutes notice. -
2nd Continental Congress
Colonial leaders called for the second Continental Congress to meet with the Philadelphia. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
This is where they fight on the hill that was much tougher then the British had expected. They were forced back toward the river. The fight was really not on Bunker Hill they got the wong names.
