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Sugar Act
The first tax put on sugar and molasses imported from the French and Spanish west Indies. -
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Road to Revolution
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Stamp Act
A law requiring Colonists to pay a tax in the form of stamps on certain commercial items. -
Townshend Act
Four laws declaring Britain’s authority over the colonies, and set up strict measures for collecting taxes. -
Boston Massacre
British troops were being harassed by an angry mob of Colonists and opened fire, killing 5 people. -
Tea Act
Britain restructured the tax on tea to give a special advantage to the British East India Company -
Boston Tea Party
Colonists reacted to the tax on tea from the British by throwing their barrels of tea into the ocean. -
Intolerable Acts
A series of laws passed by Britain designed to punish the Colonies after the Boston Tea Party. -
First Continental Congress
Delegates met in Philadelphia to bring the Colonies together and boycott the British. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
700 British troops advanced towards Concord to seize the Colonists’ military supplies.
