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The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act Is where the British government/king and queen taxed the colonists on paper products. -
The Boston Massacre
British sentries guarding the Boston Customs House shot into a crowd of civilians, killing three men and injuring eight, two of them mortally. -
The Tea Act
Granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Sons of Liberty organized an attack on the tea supplement so basically they dumped the tea into the ocean. -
The Intolerable Acts
The Royal Navy to blockade Boston Harbor because “the commerce of his Majesty's subjects cannot be safely carried on there." -
Lexington and Concord
The famous 'shot heard 'round the world', marked the start of the American War of Independence. -
Common Sense
It made a clear case for independence and directly attacked the political, economic, and ideological obstacles to achieving it. -
The Declaration of Independence
Where the 13 colonies basically said see ya or the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain. -
Proclamation of 1763
It declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."