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Sugar and Molasses Act.
A law put taxes on sugar, molasses, and rum. -
Currency Act.
An act that didn't let colonists use their state's money. They had to use British currency. -
Stamp Act.
A law that made colonists pay taxes on imported paper. -
Quatering Act.
When the British made the colonists let the British soldiers stay in the houses and feed them. -
Townshend Acts.
A series of laws passed by the British to the colonists from June 15-July 2, 1767. It put taxes on all British imported goods. -
Boston Massacre.
The killing of 5 British colonists by British police officers. It was cause by tension between the British and Colonists. -
Boston Tea Party
When the Sons of Liberty dressed up as Native Americans and dumped boxes of British tea into the Boston Harbor as a protest. -
Intolerable Acts.
Laws that punished the colonists for the Boston Tea Party. -
First Continental Congress
When all the colonies' governors, except Georgia, met to make a list of what was wrong with the Crown and give it to the British. -
Lexington/Concord
When British soldiers were sent to Concord to collect gun powder and to Lexington to capture John Adams and Hancock.
