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Sons of Liberty
It was a political protest by the suns of liberty in boston. -
Sugar Act
The sugar act had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses. -
Quarting Act
The Act was created to help cover the cost of maintaining troops in the colonies. -
Townshend Taxes
Townshend Taxes created mass taxes at the ports, external and direct -
Chief Pontiac
Chief Pontiac was a chief of the Ottawa tribe who became famous for his role in Pontiac's Rebellion -
Boston Massacre
It was a street fight between a "patriot" mob. Five colonists were shot and killed. -
The Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts was the Patriot name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Massachusetts after the Boston Tea party -
Regulator Movement
Regulator movement, designation for two groups, one in South Carolina, the other in North Carolina, that tried to effect governmental changes in the 1760s. -
Tea Act of 1773
The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies -
Boston Tea Party
was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, a city in the British colony of Massachusetts -
First Continental Congress
The first Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, from September 5, to October 26, 1774. -
Quebec Act
Privileged Catholics and extended the boundary southward towards Ohio Valley -
Royal Proclamation of 1763
King George, and Chief Pontiac and of eager to move west colonist were involved. The colonist wanted to move west because there was a lot more freedom and better land. -
The Stamp Act of 1765
The stamp act was passed by the British. It was the New tax that imposed on all American colonist and required them to pay taxes on every printed paper they used.
