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The Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts, proposed by Charles Townshend, placed a tax on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
Parliament passes the Stamp Act
British Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which required all colonists to pay duties on all paper documents. -
The Quartering Act
The Quartering Act required the colonists to house the British soldiers in their own homes. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was an event where British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists and killed five people. -
The Tea Act
The Tea Act was passed to save the East India Company from bankruptcy. Even though this Act actually made the tea cheaper, colonists still did not want to be taxed without representation in Parliament. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was when a group of Patriots from Massachusetts dressed up as Native Americans and protested the Tea Act by throwing 342 chests of tea from a British ship into the harbor at midnight. -
The Coercive Acts
The Coercive Acts, commonly known as the Intolerable Acts had several effects such as:
-The charter for the colony of Massachusetts was cancelled.
-Until the point of time when Boston paid for the tea thrown into Boston Harbor during the Boston Tea Party, Boston Harbor was closed.
