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The stamp act
British Parliament -
Townshend acts
taxed goods imported to the American colonies. -
Boston Massascare
Tensions began to grow, and in Boston in February 1770 a patriot mob attacked a British loyalist -
Boston Tea Party
American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston -
Coercive Acts
known as the Intolerable Acts in the American colonies -
Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord signaled the start of the American Revolutionary war on April 19, 1775.