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The tax stamp
Taxes collected under the provisions of the Stamp Act were to be applied exclusively to treasuries in America. -
Albany Congress
In June of 1754, representatives from seven colonies met with 150 Iroquois Chiefs in Albany, New York. -
Sugar Act
On April 5, 1764, Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act (1733), which was about to expire. -
Sons of Liberty
In Boston in 1765 a group of shopkeepers and artisans who called themselves The Loyal Nine, began preparing for agitation against the Stamp Act. -
Stamp Act congress
The members of this Congress, sincerely devoted, with the warmest sentiments of affection and duty to His Majesty's Person and Government. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that happened on March 5, 1770, between a mob of people. -
Gaspee Affair
In June of 1772, Lieutenant William Duddington, of Her Majesty's Ship Gaspee, was charged with patrolling the waters of Narragansett Bay, off Rhode Island -
Proclomation by the King
By the King a proclomation for supressing rebellion and sedition. -
Virginia Declaration of Rights
A declaration of rights made by the representatives of the good people of Virginia, assembled in full and free convention; which rights do pertain to them and their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government. -
First Virginia Constitution
Drafted by a provincial convention in May and adopted on June 29, 1776, without popular referendum.
