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THE STAMP ACT
The stamp act was the first direct tax to the american colonist -
Boston Massacre
In 1770,a fight led bristish soldiers to fire into a group of colonist armed with clubs.Five colonist were killed in what is called the "Boston Massacre. -
Period: to
the american revolution
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Tea Party
Many colonist were unhappy about british control of the clonial tea trade . -
Meeting of the First Continental Congress
in 1714 , Delegates voted to ban all trade with britian until the Intolerable Acts were repealed. -
Intolerable Acts
In 1774,British punish boston people by closing the port and sending additional troops also the British called these laws the Coercive Acts, but they were so harse that the colonists called them the Intolerable Acts. -
American revolution
About 700 british soldiers met a group of minuteman in the battles of lexington and concord. -
Common Sense
On january 10,1776 ,Thomas Paine published a best selling pamphlet called Common Sense -
Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson drafted a document that called for separation
from britian.
