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Stamp act.
The bill was passed on February 17, approved by the Lords on March 8th, and two weeks later ordered in effect by the King. The Stamp Act was Parliament's first serious attempt to assert governmental authority over the colonies. Due to the 7 years war, the goverment needed money to get out of debt. That was the main reason for the stamp act. -
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The Townshed Act.
The Townshed act, placed new taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. Colonial reaction to these taxes was the same as to the Stamp Act, and Britain eventually repealed all the taxes except the one on tea. -
Boston Massacre
A street fight, between citizens and the Brirish troops. -
The Tea Act
aunch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, created a new tax. It was made to prop up the East India Company which was failing financially and had yet to sell eighteen million pounds of unsold tea. This tea was to be shipped directly to the colonies, and sold at a lower price. -
The Boston Tea Party
When the towns people got angry with taxes and dressed up as Indian's,, and dumped 375 chests of tea into the harbor. -
The Intolerable Acts.
Four punishing measures enacted by the British Parliament in pay for the acts of colonial defiance. -
The First Continental Congress
It was held because the colonists were very upset about the Intolerable Acts and the taxes. -
Lexingtpn
The battle of Lexigton and concord. The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between Great Britain and its thirteen colonies.
