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June 15 - July 2
New regulations on a light import duty of glass, white lead paper, paint, and tea. An indirect customs duty payable at American ports.

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Parliaments response to repeal of the Stamp Act
Parliament affirms it has the right to make laws for the colonies including taxing them.

Colonial Impact: fuels their anger
Parliament responds with the Townshend Acts.

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October 7
A meeting of delegations from many of the colonies, the congress was formed to protest the newly passed Stamp Act in 1765. It adopted a declaration of rights as well as sent letters of complaints to the king and parliament; the first sign of colonial unity and organized resistance.

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A radical political organization for colonial independence who incited riots and burned the customs houses where the stamped British paper was kept.

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April 19
First military engagement that initiated the Revolutionary War between the British and American colonists. British governor Thomas Gage sent troops to Concord to stop the colonists who were loading arms.The battles resulted in a British retreat to Boston.

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September 5
the colonies held the First Continental Congress. Representatives from each colony, except Georgia, met in Philadelphia. The royal governor in Georgia succeeded in blocking delegates from being sent to the congress. The representatives gathered to discuss their response to the British "Intolerable Acts."

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December 16
Angered by the Tea Acts, American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians dump 9,000 Euro of East India Company tea into the Boston Harbor.

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May 10
This act was passed because in 1773, Britain's East India Company was sitting on large stocks of tea that they couldn't sell. They were on the verge of bankruptcy, so in effort to save it this act was passed by the government. This act gave the company the right to export its merchandise directly to the colonies without paying any of the regular taxes that were imposed on the colonial merchants. With this the company was able to undersell American merchants and monopolize the tea trade. Result: boycotting tea

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June 10
A British schooner that was boarded by angry colonists of Rhode Island, set on fire, and was sank. This act was the result of frustration among the colonists about the Navigation Acts.

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The first bloodshed of the American Revolution, as British guards at the Boston Customs House opened fire on a crowd killing five Americans.

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March 22
Exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents.

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April 5
First law passed by British Parliament that raised tax revenues in the colonies. It increased duty on foreign sugar imported from the West Indies.

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Proclamation of 1763                            

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Proclamation of 1763                            

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October 7
"No contact, no conflict"
forbade all settlement past Appalachian Mountains.