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Stamp Act
Required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards. -
Townshend Act
To help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
Boston Massacre
7 British soldiers fired into a crowd of Bostonians, killing, and wounding another 6, while angering an entire colony. -
Boston Tea Party
To protest the British Parliament's tax on tea. "No taxation without representation." The demonstrators boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. -
First Continental Congress
This convention formally declared that colonists should have the same rights as Englishmen. -
Lexington and Concord
Began with the famous shot heard around the world, marked the start of the American War of Independence.