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The Sugar act was passed with the intention of making money and protecting the American Colony’s economy. It discouraged the smuggling of non-British goods into North America.

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The Stamp Act imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies. This act came when the empire was in debt from the costly Seven Years’ War and looked to create revenue through the colonies

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The Sons of Liberty was an organization formed to protect the colonists from unfair taxation. They most famously battle the Stamp Act in 1765.

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The Stamp Act Congress consisted of representatives from the nine British colonies. It was held in order to unify a protest against the British taxation.

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The Declaratory Act was passed just as the Stamp Act was repealed. The act was passed in order to affirm its power in the colonies “in all cases whatsoever.”

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The Townshend Acts were a series of laws that enforced import taxes on British goods such as paint, paper, glass, lead, and tea. The revenue made by these taxes were to go towards paying Royal officials.

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The Boston Massacre was a fight between a mob of patriots and a group of British soldiers. The soldiers killed the colonists after they threw snowballs, sticks, and even rocks.

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The HMS Gaspee, a British customs ship, was set afire by a Sons of Liberty group. The group was threatened to be sent to trial which led to protests in the colonies

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The tea act was another unfair tax that was placed on the colonists. The taxes were obviously placed on tea.This also stated that the only company that could sell tea to the colonies was the East India Company, a British company.

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The Boston tea party was a result of the tea act. Colonists were furious due to the unfair taxes on tea. The Sons of Liberty British resistance group boarded British ships containing tea products and dumped them into the Boston Harbor

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The intolerable acts were acts to punish the colonists as a result of the Boston Tea Party. These acts banned the port of Boston until the colonists paid for their destroyed tea. And also other unfair and unjust laws. These acts were supposedly the last straw.

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The first continental congress was the first ever organized meeting that demanded the change of the unjust laws that the British layed upon the colonists. Here they advised each colony to for militia, banned trade with Britain, all acts of war.

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This battle began the American Revolution against the British. British governor Thomas Gage ordered troops to go stop colonists who were beginning to bear arms. One side fired the first show and this initiated the war.

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The Proclamation of 1763 was issued intending to appease the Indians by checking the intrusion of settlers on their land. The proclamation was abided by until the eve of the Revolution where desire for farmland became more of a priority than the proclamation was.