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Trouble with Taxes
Great Britain - they want colonists to pay taxes
Colonists - think it's not fair to pay double in taxes -
The Stamp Act
Great Britain put tax on stamps and paper goods -
Stamp Act Repealed
King George - thought taxes were fair, but he wanted to restore peace
George Washington - celebrated the tax repeal -
Daughters of Liberty
Colonists- don't want to buy from Great Britain, so they smuggle or created their own -
The Boston Massacre
Great Britain - colonists were throwing snow balls and wood at British soldiers and formed an angry mob
Colonists - they were innocent and British soldiers started it -
British East India Company were the only ones who could sell to America.
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Boston Tea Party
Sons of Liberty (colonists) breaking open crates of tea and throwing it into the ocean -
Great Britain closed the Boston Harbor
Outraged by the Boston Tea Party