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Sugar Act
The sugar act began the taxation of many other imports not just sugar. But also lowered the tax on molasses to avoid smuggling. The sugar act also made colonists who violated the act be held on trial in vice-admiralty. So the case would be decided by one judge and not by colonists. -
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Road to the Revolution
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Stamp Act
This act made all documents and printed items taxed. To prove that the tax on the item had been paid a stamd would be placed on it. Only 2 months after the stamp act had been passed the colonists united to defey the law. 5 months of protests finally got the law repealed. -
Boston Massacre
In Boston a group of colonists gathered to taunt the british soldiers. They threw snow and stones at the soilders. The soilders fired thier guns and five colonists were killed. This event caused tension to rise between the colonists and the british. -
Boston Tea Party
The Tea Act allowed the British East India Tea Company to sell tea to the colonists free of any tax. This made their tea more affordable. Colonial merchents diguised as Native Americans dumped 18,000 pounds of the British East India Tea Company tea into the Boston harbor to protest the losses that they had caused them. -
The Intolerable Acts
The British Perliament passed multiple laws that shut down the boston harbor, allowed british soilders to stay in vacant homes, and appointed General Thomas the new governor of Massachusetts. The colonists responded with a declaration of colonial rights. This stated that, "if the British used force against the colonies, the colonies should fight back." -
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine wrote a 50 page pamphlet attacking King George and saying how the colonists feel about the british control. Paine belived that the colonies should be become independent from the british. In the pamphlet the talks about many of the bennifets that would come of this. -
The Most Important
Common Sense was the most important because it showed the colonists that indpendence would be a good idea and how it would benifet them.
