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- Stamp Act
- We can pass tax laws in the colonies to fund the French and Indian war!
- They'll never know!
- Stamp Act of 1765Taxing items such as newspapers and pamphlets.
- The Stamp Act was an act passed by Parliament in 1765 that taxed items such as newspapers and pamphlets. Colonists strongly resented the new taxes, and saw them as an attack on their rights.
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- Stamp Act (2)
- We are now being taxed on all of our items?
- Stamp Act
- NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!
- Why is everyone yelling
- Colonists protested No Taxation Without Representation. They felt that Parliament had no right to tax them since they had no representatives in Parliament. Eventually Parliament repealed the Stamp Act, but still maintained its right to tax the colonists.
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- Boston Massacre
- Serves them right!!
- FIRE!!! Wait-
- OMG WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?
- Oh no...
- 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.
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- Boston Tea Party
- Throw all this damn tea in the water
- 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.
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- Declaration of Independence
- Yes!!!
- Are you sure you want to sign this
- Declaration of independence
- 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.
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- Revolutionary War
- WE WILL BEAT YOU!!!
- Never
- 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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