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The Sons of Liberty was a group of colonist who formed because of the anger of the Stamp Act.
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The Daughters of Liberty formed as a result of the taxes like the stamp act. They spoke out for patriotism and freedom. The reason why they were so important is that they helped organized boycotts and helped made goods that the British taxed.
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The Townshend tax was placed on the colonist: It taxed glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.
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The Boston Massacre was a result of the Townshend acts. Before the massacre, the colonist was protesting the new taxes like the Townshend stamp act. They were harassing and throwing snowballs at the 8 soldiers who were asked to keep guard of the crowd. Then all of a sudden, they heard shoot, and they shot into the public, killing 3 and injuring 8 people.
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The trial happened as a result of the Boston Massacre. It was the British troops vs. the American colonist. The British forces were able to win, but they still got punished a little bit.
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The tea act was a tax the British created on tea to give the East Indian Company a monopoly on the tea trade in the Colonies.
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The Boston Tea Party was an advent where the colonist was so fed up with the new Tea Act that they decided to dump $18,000. A person named Samuel Adams helped organize it. The Tea Party was a significant turning point in starting the revolution.
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The Intolerable Act was how the Britsh punished Boston after the Tea Party. They closed the Boston Harbor so they couldn't trade with the rest of the world.
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Britain placed the quartering act on Boston as another punishment for the Boston Tea Party. It made soldiers able to live in citizens' houses, and they had no option but to allow them to stay there. Also, the people had to give the soldiers food.
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After the Quartering acts, the colonist started moving their weapons to Lexington.
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Paul Revere was set on a task to ride to Lexington to warn Samuel Adams that the British were coming.
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The British forces evacuated Boston. So that means there was an American victory in Boston.