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Declaratory Act 1765
the declaratory act was for revoking the 1765 stamp act -
Townshend Acts 1767
it initiated taxes on basically everything -
French-Indian War (1756-1763)
the french indian war aka also know as the seven year war -
stamp act
its basicily anything that you had to pay taxes on -
Boston Massacre March 5 1770
The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot that occured Boston between American colonists and British soilder -
Second Continental Congress May 1775
raising the Continental Army through conscription -
Intolerable Acts (aka Coercive Acts) 1773
it was a act that british soliders used to just move into peoples house -
Boston Tea Party 1773
American colonists was frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea -
Quartering Act 1774
allowed royal governors, rather than colonial legislatures, to take peoples house -
Battle of Lexington & Concord 1775
it was a single shot that was heard around the that marked the start of the american war of independence -
Common Sense 1776
was a 47 page pamphlet written by Thomas advocating independence from Great Britain -
Declaration of Independence 1776
it is the day they signed the declaration of independence