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Adams and his friend Samuel Quincy observed the first confrontation between the American colonies and the British Crown when a customs official applied for writs of assistance.
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The Stamp Act is approved by Parliament.
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The colonists, who had convened the Stamp Act Congress in October 1765 to vocalize their opposition to the impending enactment, greeted the arrival of the stamps with outrage and violence
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the document affirms the unconstitutionality of taxation without representation.
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the stamp act is finally repealed after a year of angry colonists protesting it
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the townshend act is put into effect
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4,000 british troops were deployed to areas of trouble
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defended John Hancock in a smuggling case of Madeira wine and three sailors accused of murdering a navy officer.
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a riot began outside in the streets of boston
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The Boston Massacre occurred on March 5, 1770. A squad of British soldiers, come to support a sentry who was being pressed by a heckling, snowballing crowd, let loose a volley of shots. Three persons were killed immediately