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The Stamp act
It was the first time the colonies were taxed because the British felt like they should be payed for all the blood they spent protecting the colonies from the Indians -
The Townshend Acts
Great Britain waned to tax there good that the colonies received but the colonies boycotted the goods -
The Boston Massacre
Boston colonist were killed by red coats in a riot 3 of the colonist were killed including an African American -
The Boston Tea Party
The Sons of Liberty a group decided to confront the British head on they boarded three ships in Boston harbor and destroyed more than 92,000 pounds of British tea by dumping it into the harbor to prove that they are not playing games -
The Coercive Acts
The British were tired of all the things the colonies were doing they tried to do somethings to tame everything that was happening like closing the Boston harbor and making colonist let red coats sleep at there houses -
Intolerable Acts
A series of laws also called the Coercive Acts passed by Brittan in response to the Boston Tea Party. -
Lexington and Concord
The British lost 73 dead, with another 174 wounded and 26 missing in the fight the bloody encounter proved to the British that the colonists were a scary foe who had to be taken seriously it was the start of America’s war of independence
