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Political Protest by the Sons of Liberty because the resistance movement against the Tea Act , which had been passed by the Parliamentin 1773. Colonists objected to the Tea Act because they believed that it violated their right rights as Englishmen

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laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor.

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an act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents

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1st Continental
Congress  September 5 to October 26, 1774

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1st Continental
Congress  September 5 to October 26, 1774

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Was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.

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Tea Act                                           

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Tea Act                                           

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The act’s main purpose was not to raise revenue from the colonies but to bail out the floundering East India Company, a key actor in the British economy. The British government granted the company a monopoly on the importation and sale of tea in the colonies.

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Proclamation of 1763    1763                        

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Proclamation of 1763    1763                        

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At the end of the French and Indian War, the British issued a proclamation, Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands

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Declaratory Act  1766                                

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Declaratory Act  1766                                

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This was a declaration by the British Parliament  that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. It stated that the British Parliament’s taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain.

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Stamp Act Congress      October 7 and 25, 1765                        

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Stamp Act Congress      October 7 and 25, 1765                        

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First Congress of the American Colonies that was held in New York. The objective of the representatives was to devise a unified protest against new British taxation

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Lexington and Concord  April 19, 1775         

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Lexington and Concord  April 19, 1775         

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This battle kicked off the American Revolutionary War. A confrontation on the Lexington town green started off the fighting, and soon the British were hastily retreating under intense fire.

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Townshend Acts  1767                    

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Townshend Acts  1767                    

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Townshend Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. Townshend hoped the acts would defray imperial expenses in the colonies, but many Americans viewed the taxation as an abuse of power, resulting in the passage of agreements to limit imports from Britain.

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The Act set a tax on sugar and molasses imported into the colonies which impacted the manufacture of rum in New England.The Sugar Act was part of the policy of Mercantilism  that favored England by controlling trade, especially in respect of the import of sugarcane from the West Indies.

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An organization of American colonists that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies. The secret society was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government

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The Gaspee June 09, 1772                    

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The Gaspee June 09, 1772                    

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British customs schooner that had been engaged in anti-smuggling operations. It ran aground in shallow water  near what is now known as Gaspee Point in the city of Warwick, Rhode Island, while chasing the packet boat Hannah.

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It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed .