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Sugar Act
The British put a tax on sugar and molasses to get money from colonists -
Stamp Act
The British Parliment put a tax on all American colonists, requiring them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. -
Quartering Act
British soliders were allowed to stay in colonists' houses whenever they wanted. -
Boston Massacre
British soldiers kill five Americans in Boston -
Boston Tea Party
Bostonians throw tea into harbor in protest of British rule. -
Intolerable Acts
Three acts the British made on the Americans that infuriated them -
First Continental Congress
The first time the delegates met in Philedalphia. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The beginning of unorganized warfare and the start of the revolutionary war.
