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Repeal of the Townshend Act
There was widespread protest, and American port cities refused to import British goods, so Parliament began to partially repeal the Townshend duties. British parliament repealed the Townshend duties on everything except tea. Pressure from British merchants was partially responsible for the change. -
The Battle of Golden Hill
This was between British Soldiers and the sons of liberty in the American colonies, in New York City. This event was one of the early violent incidents in what would become the American Revolution. This battle lasted several days. -
The Boston Massacre
This was a deadly riot on King street in Boston. American colonists rebelled against the taxes they found repressive, rallying around the cry, “no taxation without representation.” A fight broke out between local workers and British soldiers. It ended without serious bloodshed but helped set the stage for the bloody incident yet to come. It lasted around a month -
Battle of Alamance
It was the final battle of the War of the Regulation, a rebellion in colonial North Carolina over issues of taxation and local control. It took place in Orange County and has since become Alamance County in the central Piedmont about six miles south of present-day Burlington, North Carolina. This battle lasted two hours. -
Burning of the Gaspee
This was the open act of civil defiance against the British. This gave the idea for the Committees of Correspondence which would lead to the founding of the First Continental Congress and eventually the Declaration of Independence. -
Boston Tea Party
The Tea Party was the culmination of a resistance movement throughout British America against the Tea Act, which had been passed by the British Parliament. Colonists objected to the Tea Act because they believed that it violated their rights as Englishmen to "No taxation without representation,". So they dressed as indians and dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. -
Dunmores War
The claims over power and land between the colonists and Indians were the main reason as to why this happened. John Murray, who was the governor at that moment, asked the Virginia House of Burgesses to declare a state of war with the hostile Indian nations and order up an elite volunteer militia force for the campaign. He was also offering freedom to any slave who fought for the Crown against the Patriots in Virginia. -
Coercive Acts
It was passed in response to the Boston Tea Party, the Coercive Acts sought to punish Massachusetts as a warning to other colonies. The Coercive Acts describe a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774, relating to Britain’s colonies in North America. -
The Powder Alarm
This was a major popular reaction to the removal of gunpowder from a magazine by British soldiers under orders from General Thomas Gage, royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. In response to this action, amid rumors that blood had been shed, alarm spread through the countryside to Connecticut. There was a mob action forced Loyalists and some government officials to flee to the protection of the British Army. -
First Continental Congress
This was made to show support for Boston and to work out unified approach to British. It was a meeting of a group of leaders from about 12 of the 13 colonies-Georgia did not attend. 56 members attended. They went to state colonists' concerns and ask the King to correct the problems. The result was that they continued to boycott British goods, and prepare colonial militia for war. -
Greenwich Tea Party
Greenwich Township, a small community in Cumberland County. At night a load of tea meant to be sent overland into Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was torched by a group of 40 Patriots dressed as Native Americans. The event took place a year after the Boston Tea Party.
