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- Stamp Act (1765)
- We have gained massive debt from the French and Indian war! What do we do?
- That's a great Idea! Let's call it The Stamp Act!
- This will help us recoup our losses from the war! We'll use special stamped paper to print all documents
- I have a great idea! Let's pass an act that taxes all paper documents!
- The Townshend Acts (1767)
- NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!
- Stamp Act
- We are now being taxed on all of our items?
- Boston Massacre
- Serves them right!!
- Oh no...
- FIRE!!! Wait-
- OMG WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?
- After the French and Indian War, Great Britain gained a lot of debt so the British Parliament passed The Stamp Act to recoup their losses from the war. It taxed items such as newspapers, paper, and pamphlets. Colonists strongly resented the new taxes and saw them as an attack on their rights.
- Boston Tea Party
- Throw all this damn tea in the water
- In 1767, the Parliament passed a series of laws that imposed a tax on British Imports. Colonists were angry, they had no input in the law but had to pay taxes to Great Britain, colonists protested No Taxation Without Representation. Eventually, Parliament repealed the Stamp Act, but still maintained its right to tax the colonists.
- Declaration of Independence
- Are you sure you want to sign this
- Yes!!!
- The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occured in March 1770 between British soldiers and a crowd in Boston. After being pelted with stones and snowballs, the soldiers opened fire, killing five protestors . This caused the colonists' anger to grow.
- Revolutionary War
- WE WILL BEAT YOU!!!
- Never
- In December 1773, a large group of Massechusets colonists dressed up as Native Americans and dumped 342 chests of recently arrived British tea into the sea., protesting a tax on tea. The incident became known as the Boston Tea Party. Colonists gathered to help Massechusets after Parliament passed laws to punish them.
- In 1776, Congress voted to declare independence from Britain. Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jeffeerson, John Adams, Robert R. Livingston , and Roger Shermon were the comitee who drafted it.
- Declaration of independence
- The revolutionary war was a war fought by the British and the American colonists, who were fighting for independence from British rule of the 13 colonies. The colonists eventually won.
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