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the act required the colonists to pay taxes on stamps so every piece of paper that was printed had to have a stamp on it so it would then be taxed Exs. papers, documents,and playing cards -
seven British soldiers fired into a crowd of volatile Bostonians,killing five,wounding another six, and angering an entire colony -
to protest against "no taxation without representation" they boarded the ships and threw the crates of tea into the harbor the British parliament considered the protest an act of treason -
a series of 4 laws passed by the British parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party -
made a clear case for independence and directly attacked the political,economical,and ideological obstacles to achieving it