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the sugar act
put a 3 cent tax on foreign refined sugar. -
Stamp act
Made everyone put stamps on there letters -
Patrick Henry's "If this be treason"
The speech that ended with "Give me liberty, or give me death!" -
Townshend acts
Laws that place new taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea -
The Boston Massacre
Shooting of five american colonists by british troops. ( but it was really the templars) -
The Boston tea party
Angry and frustrated at a new tax on tea, American colonists calling themselves the Sons of Liberty and disguised as Mohawk Native Americans boarded three British ships and dumped 342 whole crates of British tea into Boston harbor on December 16, 1773. -
The First Continental Congress
Two groups of people from all over the 13 Colonies who came together to discuss liberty -
Paul Revere
Rode on a horse and said " The British are comming"! -
the battles of lexington and concord
First shots fired between American and British troops, on April 19, 1775 -
Declaration of Indepenedence
Document declaring the 13 American Colonies independent from Great Britain
