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- Stamp Act-1765
- No taxation without representation!
- Townshend Acts-1767
- We have to search your ship!
- Boston Massacre-1770
- WHOOSH
- The Stamp Act took place in 1765 . This new tax required the colonists to pay extra for every official document they paid for.
- Tea Act-1773
- The Townshend Acts consisted of a series of acts done by the British. They brought on a tax on lead, paper, tea, glass, and paint. Also, they passed a law that allowed British officials to search ships owned by Americans without a warrant. This was quite unfair.
- Boston Tea Party-1773
- The Boston Massacre was a tragic incident that dealt with colonists abusing British colonists by throwing rocks at them and doing other harmful things. The British eventually started firing back with their rifles, causing the death of 5 American colonists.
- Coercive/Intolerable Acts-1774
- PUNISHMENT
- The Tea Act, passed by Parliament in 1773, was passed to reduce the large amount of tea held by the British East India Company in its warehouses in London. However, the colonists were still angered because there was still a tax on tea.
- The Boston Tea Party was a protest held by American colonists. The colonists, dressed as Native Americans, proceeded to dump 342 chests of tea off boats filled with imports. This proved to Britain that these Americans would suffer no more.
- The Coercive Acts are a serious of laws that were passed by the British in 1774. These laws were meant to punish the colonies of Massachusetts for all their protests and inability to pay their taxes and agree with the British.
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