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This Act put a three-cent tax on refined sugar, coffee, indigo, and certain types of wine.
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This Act required every newspaper, pamphlet, and all public and legal documents to have a stamp.
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Patrick Henry criicizes The Stamp Act.
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These laws placed new taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea. This led to violent demonstrations against the taxes.
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Five American colonist were killed by British soldiers. The soldiers were put on trial, but no one was ever charged with the crime. This deepened the American distrust of the British.
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This Act allowed the British to sell directly to the colonist without using local merchants.
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American colonists calling themselves the Sons of Liberty and disguised as Mohawk Native Americans boarded three British ships and dumped 342 crates of British tea into the Boston harbor.
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The purpose of this meeting was to compose a statement of colonial rights, identify the rights of the colonists that had been violated by the British Parliament, and to try to convince Britain to restore those rights. They agreed to meet again if Britain did not change their policies.
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Patrick Henry delivered this speech before the Virginia legislature. He argued for colonial independence.
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This Congress voted to completely break away from Britain, organize a militia known as the Continental Army, and to print money.
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