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End of the French & Indian War
Britain defeat France, huge debt. leads to taxes. -
Proclamation of 1763
Banned all colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains. Colonists believed they had a right to live where they pleased. -
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Road To Revolution
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Sugar Act
Put a tax on sugar, molasses, & other things; included harsh punishments for smugglers. -
Quartering Act
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Stamp Act
Colonists had to buy an additional stamp for documents like wills, contracts, newspapers and even playing cards -
Townshend Act
Britain won't tax goods in the colonies. Tax on imports including lead, tea, glass, etx. The Writs of Assistance. Allowed British customs officials to search ships. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British. This was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. Its principal overt objective was to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. -
Boston Tea Party
Disguised as American Indians, the demonstrators hurt no one but destroyed the entire supply of tea sent by the East India Company in defiance of the American boycott of tea carrying a tax the Americans had not authorized. -
Lexington & Concord
They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston. The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in the mainland of British North America. -
Paul Revere's Ride
The poem is spoken by the landlord of the Wayside Inn and tells a partly fictionalized story of Paul Revere. In the poem, Revere tells a friend to prepare signal lanterns in the Old North Church to inform him if the British will attack by land or sea. -
Coercive/Intolerable Acts
The acts stripped Massachusetts of self-government and historic rights, triggering outrage and resistance in the Thirteen Colonies. They were key developments in the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775.
