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The Stamp Act imposed a direct tax on the colonists. the act required that starting in the fall of 1765, legal documents and printed materials must bear a tax stamp provided by commissioned distributors who would collect the tax in exchange for the stamp. -
New taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea. Established an American Customs Board in Boston to collect taxes. Gave British officials the right to search colonists' houses and businesses. -
The Boston Massacre occurred on March 5, 1770, when British soldiers in Boston opened fire on a group of American colonists killing five men. Prior to the Boston Massacre, the British had instituted a number of new taxes on the American colonies including taxes on tea, glass, paper, paint, and lead. -
Colonists weren't protesting a higher tax on tea. They attacked ships were American and the tea wasn't the King's. The tea was Chinese, not Indian, and lots of it was green. -
It was direct punishment to the city of Boston for the Boston Tea Party. The act closed the port of Boston to all ships until the colonists paid for the tea they dumped into the harbor. -
The British were led by Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith. There were 700 British regulars. The British soldiers were called regulars or sometimes red coats because they wore red uniforms. The leader of the militiamen in Lexington was Captain John Parker. -
It was one of the bloodiest battles of the American Revolution. Victory at Bunker Hill came at a terrible price for the British, with nearly half of the 2,200 Redcoats who entered the battle killed or wounded in just two hours of fighting. -
The Battle of Quebec marked a turning point in the history of New France and what would eventually become Canada. -
British naval bombardments and burning of the coastal towns of Falmouth, Massachusetts, and Norfolk, Virginia helped to unify the colonies. -
Around 9,000 of the British troops were German mercenaries called Hessians. The Americans suffered around 1000 casualties including 300 killed. Around 1,000 Americans were also captured. The British suffered around 350 casualties. -