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British win & gain control over Ohio River valley
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Colonists can't settle west of Appalachian Mountains
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Tax on molasses & rum. Hurts colonial economy by raising cost of imports from West Indies
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Tax on all printed material. Causes many colonists to vow not to buy taxed goods
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Tax on paint, glass, lead, paper, & tea. Results in boycott of British imports & protests against new taxes in Boston.
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Crispus Attucks & 4 others die after being shot by the British military.
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Colonists dressed like Mohawk Indians dump British tea into Boston Harbor
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Five acts passed by the British government as a result of the Boston Tea Party. Some of the results were that Boston Harbor was closed until the colonists paid damages for dumping the tea into Boston Harbor & the Quartering Act was passed which required the colonists to provide housing for British soldiers. These acts were known as the Intolerable Acts in the colonies but the British called them the Coercive Acts.
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Colonists gather to consider action. Training of minutemen begins.
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First military battles of the War for Independence
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Written statement of colonists' determination to become independent
