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Date: 1763
So What:  salutary neglect wasn’t economically
advantageous anymore. The colonies had become an expensive drain.

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Date: 1765
So What:  a new tax that required a stamp for all printed items including newspapers, legal documents, and even playing cards.

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Date: October 1765
So What:  the colonies decided to organize and sent representatives to a meeting in New York City.

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Date: 1765
So What:   The British responded by sending troops to occupy the city, requiring Massachusetts Council to quarter them in public spaces in the city.

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Date: 1766
So What:  The repeal of the Stamp Act is personified as a funeral procession on a London dock in this 1766 print.

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Date: 1766
So What:  stating that it had all power to make laws that were strong enough to keep the people in the colonies under Great Britain’s control.

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Date: 1770
So What:  British soldiers were guarding the Boston customs house, where taxes were collected when an angry mob began throwing rocks and snowballs at them. Shots rang out, killing five colonists

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Date: 1770
So What:   To avoid paying the tax, many colonists
bought smuggled tea or made their own tea from herbs.

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Date: 1773
So What:  allowing only the British East India Company to sell tea in the colonies.

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Date: 1773
So What:  An outraged Parliament punished the Boston rebels in 1774 by passing the Coercive Acts

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Date: 1774
So What:   Boston Harbor would be closed until the destroyed tea was paid for.

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Date: 1774
So What:   Whispers of independence were in the air. But most colonists still saw themselves as British subjects.

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Date: 1775
So What:   delegates signed the Declaration of Independence. Though the fighting and the war had already begun, independence was at last formally declared.

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Date: 1775
So What:  The Revolutionary War started because the Colonial Americans wanted their own country and they were tired of being governed by America and their unreasonable tax laws.

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Date: 1776
So What:  This document officially stated that
the 13 colonies were cutting ties with Great Britain and the King.