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The Sugar Act
The preamble to the act stated: "it is expedient that new provisions and regulations should be established for improving the revenue of this Kingdom ... and ... it is just and necessary that a revenue should be raised ... for defraying the expenses of defending, protecting, and securing the same.
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The Currency Act
The Currency Act or Paper Bills of Credit Act[1][2] is one of several Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain that regulated paper money issued by the colonies of British America. The Acts sought to protect British merchants and creditors from being paid in depreciated colonial currency. The policy created tension between the colonies and Great Britain and was cited as a grievance by colonists early in the American Revolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_Act -
Stamp Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamp_Act_1765
The Stamp Act 1765, also known as the Duties in American Colonies Act 1765 (5 Geo. 3. c. 12), was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper from London which included an embossed revenue stamp. -
British Troops Occupy Boston
On March 5, 1770, seven British soldiers fired into a crowd of volatile Bostonians, killing five, wounding another six, and angering an entire colony. The event, known as the Boston Massacre, did not happen in an isolated vacuum, but it occurred as a result of growing tensions between Boston colonists and English Parliament.
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The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre, known in Great Britain as the Incident on King Street,[1] was a confrontation, on May 5, 1770, during the American Revolution in Boston in what was then colonial-era Province of Massachusetts Bay.
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Committees of Correspondence Established
Committees of correspondence had existed since the early eighteenth century as a way for colonial legislatures to communicate with their agents in London. In the 1760s, the Sons of Liberty used committees of correspondence to organize resistance between cities.
https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/committees-of-correspondence#:~:text=Committees%20of%20correspondence%20had%20existed,to%20organize%20resistance%20between%20cities. -
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The Tea Act
The Tea Act 1773 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. A related objective was to undercut the price of illegal tea, smuggled into Britain's North American colonies.
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Seven Year War
The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) was a global conflict involving most of the European great powers, fought primarily in Europe and the Americas. One of the opposing alliances was led by Great Britain and Prussia. The other alliance was led by France and Austria, backed by Spain, Saxony, Sweden, and Russia. The French and Indian War (1754–1763), the Anglo-Spanish War and the Spanish–Portuguese War (1762–1763) were all parts of the Seven Years' War.
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Intolerable Act/ Coercive Acts
The Coercive Acts of 1774, known as the Intolerable Acts in the American colonies, were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.
https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/the-coercive-intolerable-acts-of-1774#:~:text=The%20Coercive%20Acts%20of%201774,for%20the%20Boston%20Tea%20Party. -
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Independence Declared
On July 4, 1776, it was adopted unanimously by the 56 delegates to the Second Continental Congress, who convened at Pennsylvania State House, later renamed Independence Hall, in the colonial era capital of Philadelphia. These delegates became known as the nation's Founding Fathers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence