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Sugar Act
This taxed sugar, wines, coffee, pimiento, cambric, and printed calico. Colonists protested this tax, and said, "No taxation without representation," for the first time. -
Stamp Act
It taxed newspapers, almanacs, pamphlets, broadsides, legal documents, dice, and playing cards. Colonists rioted, boycotted, and protested. -
Declaratory Act
A day after the Stamp Act was repealed, Parliament still fought to take control of the colonies by passing this act. This act made it so that Britain could make any future laws. -
Townshend Acts
This act was passed to tax glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea which in turn would help fund Britain to govern the colonies. -
Townshend Act Cutback
As Britain lost some of their profits from boycotts because of taxed goods such as lead and glass, they decided to withdraw the entire Townshend Act but keep tea to be taxed. -
Boston Massacre
The colonists were angered by the amount of British troops and taxes coming into Boston. So, the colonists rioted. They threw things and yelled things at the troops. The troops started firing, and at the ned there were 5 dead colonists -
Tea Act
The tax on imported British tea was reduced, so this act gave the British merchants an unfair advantage in selling their tea in the colonies. The colonists planned on boycotting tea because of this act. -
Boston Tea Party
On the night of December 16, a group of colonists dressed as Indians boarded the British tea ships and poured all the tea out into the harbor. -
Quartering Act
This act allowed British troops to stay in colonists homes. The colonists couldn't refuse, all they could do is watch as troops walked into their homes as if it were theirs. The colonists hated this act a lot. -
Lexington and Concord
British troops were on their way taking all of the ammunition stashes, when Paul Revere saw them and told the Minutemen. The Minutemen would soon stop the British in their tracks at Lexington, where the first shot of the Revolutionary War was shot by an unknown person. This shot was later called, " the shot heard round the world." After that many more shots were fired, and many on both sides of the battlefield lay dead