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Sugar Act
-Tax on foreign sugar, luxuries and enforced acts
-Caused protests around colonies -
Stamp Act
-Tax on paper goods
-Colonists Protest -
Townshend Act
-Taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea
_Colonists didn't like that it took power from colonial government -
Boston Massacure
-Colonists didn't want British soldiers in their cities so they retaliated
-Causing 5 people dead and new rules -
Boston Tea Party
-Colonists didn't want taxed tea
-Sons of liberty dressed as Mohawk Indians and dumped all the tea (3 ships) overboard when they came in -
Coercive Acts
-Passed acts after Boston Tea Party that were meant to be punishment to the colonists
-Violation of rights, threatened to liberties of all British America -
Lexington and Concord
-Shut down city harbor in June 1774 until colonists paid for the tea
-Major military victory, showed behavior wouldn't be tolerated
