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Reduced tax on molasses but overall increased taxes.
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The colonial citizens had to house British soldiers.
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Sam Adams created a group of patriots called the sons of liberty
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A stampede of Sons of Liberty tore down the house and office of the stamp collector
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Repealed the stamp act but asserted parliaments power to rule as colonies saw fit
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the import taxes on a variety of goods were collected to support royal officials in the colonies, removing all of the responsibility from the colonial assemblies. All of the Townsend Acts were so unpopular that the taxes were repealed, except the one on tea.
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Colonist threw snowballs and rocks at British soldiers guarding the customs house. The soldiers shot at the crowd killing five colonist.
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Passed to save the East India Tea company.It gave the company a monopoly and threatened the business of colonial importers.
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Boston patriots dressed as Indians, boarded the loading ships and threw the tea over board
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The intolerable act officially called the coercive acts,meant to force Massachusetts to pay for the tea destroyed in the Boston tea party.The laws also closed the Boston harbor and forced colonist to house British soldiers
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The first continental congress agrees to boycott British goods
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Patrick Henry,in the house of Burgesses "Give me liberty or give me death" speech.
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Battle of Lexington and concord
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Congress sends an "olive branch" to King George III. He rejected and sent more troops to Boston
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There is a battle at Bunker hill
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A Pamphlet reminding colonist why they are fighting for rights gets published by Thomas Paine
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Drafted by Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration of Independence is Approved
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Patriots win Saratoga
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Baron Von Steuben trains the first continental army in Valley Forge, Penn
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France signs alliance with the US
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Gen. Clinton captures 3000 patriots as he takes Charlestown
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Treaty of Paris was signed
