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[April 5, 1764] Parliament passed an act that cut the sugar tax in half. The intent was not to simply regulate trade but to actually raise revenue.

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[September 5, 1774] delegates from 12 out of 13 colonies met in Philadelphia  to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts. They created a compact to boycott British goods.

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[May 10, 1773

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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[October 7, 1763] The Proclamation forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. A desire for good farmland caused many colonists to defy the proclamation; others merely resented the royal restrictions on trade and migration.

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[March 18, 1766] It is also known as the "The American Colonies Act 1766." It concludes that Britain can put any number of binding taxes on the colonies for any reason.

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[October 7-25, 1765] The intent of the congress was to create a unified protest against British taxation. In the end, the Declaratory Act was created.

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[April 19, 1775] Lexington and Concord was the first battle of the American Revolutionary War. The British lost the battle.

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The Sons of Liberty was a group of colonists with their sole goal being to protect colonist's rights and fight taxation by British. Their motto was "No Taxation without Representation."

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[1767] The goal of the Acts was to raise money to pay the governors and judges to stay loyal to Great Britain, enforce trade regulations, punish New York, and establish that Britain had the option of taxing the colonies if it chose to. The taxes were repealed

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[March 5, 1770]  British soldiers, come to support a sentry who was being pressed by a heckling, snowballing crowd, let loose a volley of shots. Main point is that it helped "to galvanize the colonial public to the Patriot cause."

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[June 9, 1772] Abraham Whipple and John Brown, colonists trying to sneak goods out of the states, were apprehended by the customs officers aboard the Gaspee. "They attacked, boarded, looted, and torched the ship."