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Stamp Act
Taxed imposed on all American colonists that required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they use. -
Boston Massacre
A riot in Boston arising from the resentment of Boston colonists to British troops quartered in the city in which troops fired on the mobs and killed several people. -
Boston Tea Party
Colonist dress up as Indians and threw hundreds of chests of tea in the harbor as a protest against British taxes on tea.