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Stamp Act
- a tax on the legal recognition of document -an act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. Colonial opposition led to the act's repeal in 1766 and
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Boston Massacre
-The Boston Massacre was known as the Incident on King Street by the British.
-British Army soldiers shot and killed several people while under attack by a mob on March 5,1770 -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Indiansns of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts
- 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians -
Tea Act
-British East Indian Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in American colonies.
-The tea tax was kept in order to maintain Parliament’s right to tax the colonies -
The Intolerable Acts
- King closed Boston harbour to everything but British ships
- He sent lots of British troops to Boston. the colonists had to house and feed the troops. (if the colonists didn't do this, they would be shot.
- British officials could only be tried in Britain for crimes, which left the british free to do whatever they wanted in the colonies
- British Governor was in charge of all meetings. there would be no more self government
- The Quebec
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First Continental Congress
-The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met from September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.
-the Intolerable Acts passed by the British Parliament which the British referred to as the Coercive Acts with which the British intended to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
-when British troops are sent to confiscate colonial weapons, they run into an untrained and angry militia.
-ragtag army defeats 700 British soldiers and the surprise victory bolsters their confidence for the war ahead. -
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American Revolution
-The American Revolution was a colonial revolt that took place between 1765 and 1783. The American Patriots in the Thirteen Colonies won independence from Great Britain, becoming the United States of America.
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2nd Continental Congress
-The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the spring of 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
-it was a convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that formed in Philadelphia in May 1775, soon after the launch of the American Revolutionary War. -
Declaration of Independence
A document created by the Second Continental Congress at the Pennsylvania state house.
