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Beginning of Colonial Opposition
British Parliament wanted to collect money from the North American colonies for the British crown. They passed the following laws that increased taxes from sugar to newspapers and banned the use of American colonies issuing their own currency,:
1764 – Sugar Act and Currency Act
1765- Stamp Act
The colonists felt oppressed by these acts and responded with protests as well as the creation of the Sons of Liberty. -
Sons of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty was a secret protest group formed in the North American British colonies that protected the rights of the colonist against the British government. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a fight between British Soldiers and American Colonists. British soldiers fired on a crowd and killed five civilians. This event aggravated the already tense relations between the British and the colonists. -
Committees of Correspondence
Committees that were set up throughout colonies to collect revolutionary ideas and create a unified response to British actions. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Sons of Liberty were protesting the tea tax by dumping the tea in to the harbor from a British ship. They disguised themselves as Mohawks and the British retaliated harshly which further escalated the situation. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts was the name given to the punitive laws that were part of the British response to the colonist’s destruction of property from the Boston Tea Party. They included the Boston Port Act, The Massachusetts Government Act, The Administration of Justice Act and The Quartering Act. -
The First Continental Congress
A list of grievances in response to the Intolerable Act which were enforced on the colonist by the British after The Boston Tea party. The convention included delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies with exception of Georgia. -
Ride of Paul Revere
Paul Revere rode to Lexington to alert Samuel Adams and John Hancock that the British were advancing to Concord. He altered militias and citizens along his ride of the British advance. -
The Shot Heard Around The World
The famous battle of Lexington and Concord was the first official engagement between Britain and the Colonies in the American Revolutionary War. It is unknown which side fired the first shot at Lexington which resulted in eight colonists casualties. At Concord, the result was British casualties and British retreat to Boston.
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