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Tea Act
After a period of relative calm, Parliament enacted the Tea Act in 1773. The Tea Act was designed to help the struggling East India Company by giving it a virtual monopoly on selling tea in the colonies. Parliament claimed that the tax on tea, left over from the Townshend Duties, would be paid in England, not in the colonies. In the following broadside by Mucius, what argumehttp://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/amrev/rebelln/freemen.html -
Boston Massacre
Conflicts between the British colonists had been on the rise because of the British government had been trying to increase colonies and raise taxes at the same time. The event in Boston helped unite the colonies against Britain. -
Stamp Act Was Passed.
The Stamp Act required all colonists to purchase watermarked, taxed paper for use in newspapers and legal documents. The Stamp Act was the first internal tax ever imposed. It was imposed on the colonies by Parliament. It also aroused great opposition.
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Quartering Act
Although some in Parliament thought the army should be used to enforce the Stamp Act (1765), others commended the colonists for resisting a tax passed by a legislative body in which they were not represented. The act was repealed, and the colonies abandoned their ban on imported British goods. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/continental/timeline1b.html -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party took place on December 16, 1773. Angry colonists who called themselves the "Sons of Liberty" disguised themselves as Mohawk Native Americans and got onto three British ships, called the Dartmouth, the Eleanor, and the Beaver. They then proceeded to dump 342 crates of tea from Britain into the Boston Harbor. They did this because they didn't agree with the taxes that were being placed onto their goods. <a href='http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/teaparty.htm' -
Intolerable Acts
July 6-18, attends meetings in Alexandria, Virginia, which address the growing conflict between the Colonies and Parliament. Washington co-authors with George Mason the Fairfax County Resolves, which protest the British Intolerable Actspunitive legislation passed by the British in the wake of the December 16th, 1773, Boston Tea Party.Continhttp://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwtimear.html -
Patrick Henry's Speech
The collection relates to all aspects of Carnegie's life, but the emphasis is on business and
charitable activities. The principal series, General Correspondence, consists of letters to and from
Carnegie with attached and related papers. Although the main focus is on steel manufacturing, a
considerable portion of the correspondence concerns corporations, investments, and labor issues.
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Battle of Lexington and Concord
On April 19, 1775, Great Britain’s “Bloody Butchery” at Concord and Lexington opened an eight-year war for political independence and representative republican government in America. Despite facing Europe’s greatest military power, Americans found, in the words of George Washington, that “Perseverance and Spirit could work wonders” on the battlefield and in the diplomatic theater.
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First Vote For Dec. of Ind.
Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia behind a veil of Congressionally imposed secrecy in June 1776 for a country wracked by military and political uncertainties. In anticipation of a vote for independence, the Continental Congress on June 11 appointed Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston as a committee to draft a declaration of independence.
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Independence Day
On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence. Though it is the Constitution that provides the legal and governmental framework for the United States.
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