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April 19th, 1775

The battle of Lexington and Concord led to the Revolutionary War.  But, before that, the tension between America and Britain was unbelievable.  Both countries were on the verge of war.  On April 18th, 1775, hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to Concord to seize weapons and ammunition.  Then, Paul Revere and several other men went to sound an alarm, and militia men went to intercept the redcoats.  A confrontation on the Lexington town green started off fighting, and soon, the British retreated under heavy fire. The colonists were starting to show their independence.

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September 5th, 1774

Served as government of the 13 American colonies that compromised of delegates from the colonies that met together for the Coercive Acts in 1774. These were the measures that the British imposed on the colonies when the colonists denied their taxes. Now the Continental Congress is preparing to declare America's independence from Britain.

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March 28th, 1774

British Parliament antics were very fed up by the Boston Tea Party and other blatant acts of British destruction by the American colonists.  So, they made the Coercive Acts, otherwise known as  the Intolerable Acts, that was actually four acts to make the Americans pay back the British.  The Americans broke 342 chests of tea, which costs 1,000,000$ in today's money.  The Intolerable Acts included closing the Boston port until everything they broke was repaid.  The Government Act, which closed down Massachusetts democratic meetings.  The Administrative of Justice Act, which made British officials immune to criminal prosecution, and the Quartering Act, which made the colonists house British troops on command. The colonists were fed up by this, and this led to the Revolutionary War.

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December 16th, 1773

A protest against taxation. The British were trying to boost the troubled East India Company, and British Parliament adjusted import duties with the passage of the Tea Act in 1773. Merchants in Boston refused to concede to Patriot pressure. On that night in December 16th, 1773, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea into the water. This resulted into the Coercive Acts in 1774 and pushed both sides to war.

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May 10th, 1773

This was one of the measures that led up to the Revolutionary War.  This Act's main purpose was not to raise revenue from the colonists, but to bail out the floundering East India Company, a key actor in the British economy. The British granted the company a monopoly on the importation and sale of tea in the colonies.

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March 5th, 1770

On a cold and snowy night, a mob of American colonists gathered at the Customs House in Boston, and they begin taunting the British soldiers guarding the building. The protesters were protesting the occupation of their city by British troops. Their was a fight, and five of the colonists died. Although the British stood down, they killed a lot of people, and it was called the Boston Massacre.

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June 15th, 1767

These acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea imported into the colonies. Many Americans viewed the taxation as an abuse of power. This resulted in the passage of agreements to limit imports from Britain.

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March 18, 1766

This Act stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain.  This asserted Parliament's authority to pass laws that were binding on the American colonies.  The colonies did not dispute the notion of Parliamentary supremacy over the law. The ability to tax without representation was another matter, though

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March 22, 1765

A direct tax on materials printed for commercials and legal use on the colonies.  It went down from insurance policies and broadsides to playing dice.  This Act employed a strategy that was a common fundraising vehicle in England, and it stirred up lots of protests.

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April, 1764

Colonial merchants got taxed by 6 pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses.  The merchants actually evaded this tax because of some corruption in the colonies

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May 15, 1765

This Act required British soldiers to be housed if needed be in the colonist' houses.  If the houses were too small, then they would have to find a local inn nearby.  These Acts basically required the colonists to give the British soldiers their home if necessary.

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October 7th, 1763

This was the end of the French and Indian War, and the British tightened security over the American colonies.  This closed down expansion for the colonies westward .  This was the first measure to affect all 13 colonies, and all of the lands west of the Appalachian Mountains were closed off.