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Sugar Act
had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses. -
Currency Act
Any of several Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain that regulated paper money issued by the colonies of British America. The Acts sought to protect British merchants and creditors from being paid in depreciated colonial currency. -
Stamp Act
Imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. -
Quartering Act
Name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations and housing -
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Townsend Act
imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
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Tea ACt
Was designed to bail out the British East India Company and expand the company's monopoly on the tea trade to all British Colonies, selling excess tea at a reduced price. -
Boston Tea Party
A political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts. -
Intolerable Acts
There were passed in 1774 to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party. There were three major acts involved that angered the colonists. -
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1st Continental Congress Meets
Was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
Americans defeated British -
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The Siege of Boston
British defeated an inexperienced colonial force that nevertheless managed to inflict heavy casualties.