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Intolerable acts
Mass amounts of money were spent for troops in the attemp to subjugate massachussets. British decided to reap greater benifits after the French and Indian war. -
proclimation of 1763
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Stamp act
Colonists had to purchase a stamp to prove that they paid taxes -
Quartering act
outlining conditions and locations of where british soldiers find a room and board in the American Colonies -
Townshed act
Colonists thought taxes were an abuse on of power. glass, lead, paints paper and tea were imported into the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
British soldiers lined up and fired their weapons into a croud of men. Few died. Its know as the shot heard arond the world -
Boston Tea Party
known as the destruction of tea in boston. Colonists didnt like the tea act. Soldiers were having them pay taxes on tea. -
First Continental Congress
56 delagates from all colonies except georgia wrote a draft for the declaration of rights and greivances -
Lexington and Concord
First military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. This event gave a kick start to to the Revolutionary war. Hundreds of British soldiers marched from Boston to somewhere near concord, to seize an arms cashe. -
Battle of Banker hill
british defeated Americans. Inexperienced colonial forces inflicted casulties on the enemy. These casualties were significant.
