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1765 BCE
sons of liberty
rallied support for colonial resistance through the use of petitions, assemblies, and propaganda, and they sometimes resorted to violence against British officials -
1764 BCE
sugar act
Act cut the duty on foreign molasses from 6 to 3 pence per gallon, retained a high duty on foreign refined sugar, and prohibited the importation of all foreign rum -
Stamp Act
This policy effectively ended after the French and Indian War in 1763, when the British made the decision to reinforce the Navigation Acts -
Townshend Acts
initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea -
Boston Massacre
A clash between British troops and townspeople in Boston in 1770, before the Revolutionary Wa -
Committees of Correspondence
a way for colonial legislatures to communicate with their agents in London -
Boston Tea Party
a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts -
Intolerable Acts
the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act -
First Continental Congress
formally declared that colonists should have the same rights as Englishmen -
Lexington and Concord
Massachusetts colonists defied British authority, outnumbered and outfought the Redcoats, and embarked on a lengthy war to earn their independence -
Patrick Henry “Give me Liberty or Give me Death” speech
"Give me liberty or give me death!" is a quotation attributed to American politician and orator Patrick Henry from a speech he made to the Second Virginia Convention on March 23, 1775 -
Second Continental Congress
he governing body by which the American colonial governments coordinated their resistance to British rule during the first two years of the American Revolution. -
Olive Branch Petition
to be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared -
Thomas Paine “Common Sense”
made a clear case for independence and directly attacked the political, economic, and ideological obstacles to achieving it. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence, formally titled The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America in the engrossed version and original printing, is the founding document of the United States.