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The Sugar Act
An act passed by the British government that put taxes on sugar and molasses from French and Spanish West Indies, as a way to pay for the British troops. This resulted to the colonists’ cry of “NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION” -
The Stamp Act
An act that put taxes on all legal paper documents like licenses. Angered colonists burned the stamps and rioted later forming a Stamp Act Congress to repeal the act. -
The Townshend Act
An act that suspended a colonial representative assembly and set up measures for collecting taxes. The colonists resented the threat to self-government and protested against “taxation without representation.” -
The Boston Massacre
An event where by British soldiers shot into a crowd of colonists, killing five of them which caused Boston colonists, including Samuel Adams, to demand the removal of British troops from Boston. -
The Tea Act
A tax on tea that gave a special advantage to the British East India Company where by colonial tea merchants would lose business. In the event that became known as the Boston Massacre, Colonists dumped shiploads of British tea into Boston Harbor as a way of protesting against the tea act. -
The Intolerable Acts aka Coercive Acts
A series of four acts put in place by the British government to punish the colonists, especially MA colonists, for the Boston Tea party. -
The 1st Continetal Congress
A meeting of colonial delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies that met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to discuss the passage and a way to repeal the Intolerable Acts. -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord
700 British troops advance toward Concord to seize the colonists’ gun powder. In Lexington, about 70 minutemen fight the British, and in Concord hundreds of colonists force the British troops to withdraw.
