Taxes and Responses

By vgarza723
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    French and Indian War

    Great Britain and France wanted to extend their North American colonies into the land west of the Appalachian Mountains, known then as the Ohio Territory. It ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763.
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    Proclamation of 1763

    This was issued after the French and Indian War to secure a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains from settlements.
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    Sugar act

    This act was issued so that importers could by molasses from British colonies and not the French and Spanish. It also enforced smuggling laws.
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    Stamp act

    This act required American colonists to pay a tax on every printed paper used.
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    Quartering Act

    This act was passed to quarter troops in barracks, and if not in barracks, then in public houses and inns.
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    Townshend Act

    The Townshend Act forced duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies.
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    Boston Massacre

    The Boston Massacre resulted in the death of five colonists while British troops in the Massachusetts Bay Colony were trying were trying to stop demonstrations against the Townshend Acts but it turned into a fury.
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    Committees of Correspondence

    The Committees of Correspondence regrouped colonial opposition against British policy and established a political union among the Thirteen Colonies.
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    Tea Act

    The Tea Act was a bill made to save the struggling East India Company from bankruptcy by lowering tea tax that it paid towards the British government.
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    Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party happened because colonists refused to pay taxes on British tea.
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    Intolerable Acts

    This act was passed to punish the colonists for what happened during the Boston Tea Party.
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    First Continental Congress

    This event was a meeting of representatives from 12 of the 13 colonies who met at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania early in the American Revolution.
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    Lexington and Concord

    The battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military arrangements of the Revolutionary War.
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    Second Continental Congress

    The Second Continental Congress was held to see how the colonists could meet the military threat of the British.
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    Common Sense

    A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine advising independence from Great Britain to people in the 13 colonies.
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    Declaration of Independence

    The 13 colonies claimed their independence from England, which led to the formation of the United States.