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Stamp Act
A tax to help pay for the Seven Years war on papers, documents, and playing cards -
Townshend Act
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Townshend Act
Tax on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea to help pay for the expenses of governing the colonies -
Boston Massacre
7 British Soldiers opened fire on a group of protesting Bostonians -
Boston Tea Party
Protest where 3 ships were raided by the Sons of Liberty and had their tea dumped into the harbor -
Intolerable Acts
Group of 4 laws passed by Parliment to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party -
First Continental Congress
Group of reprensentatives from every colony but Georgia which met in Philadelphia