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Sugar Act
Help with tax and balance tax problems -
The Stamp Act
tax that imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax -
The Townsend Act
Laws passed by the Parliament of Great Britian -
The Boston Massacre
People refused to pay taxes on glass, lead, paper, and tea. People refused to follow the new laws. A small group of colonists in Boston were taking out their frustration with the troops by taunting them and the troops open fire and killed them. -
Boston Tea Party
Officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. -
Battle of Lexington & Concord
British troops were sent to Concord to capture John Hancock and Samuel Adams, -
Declaration of Independence Signed
was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress , which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire -
Articles of Confederation Adopted
First written constitution or plan of government of the United States of America and specified how the national government was to operate. -
Treaty of Paris
Formally ended the American Revolutionary War between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United States of America, which had rebelled against British rule. -
U.S Constistution Ratified
the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and ratified by conventions in each U.S. state in the name of "The People".
