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April 5th 1764
1. Reduced the rate of tax on molasses from 6 pence to 3 pence per gallon.
2. List more foreign food to be taxed and regulate the export of lumber and iron.

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Oct. 7th - 25th 1765
1. Held to devise a unified protest against new British taxation.
2. Proposed by Benjamin Franklin and consisted of representatives from 9 of the British Colonies in N. America.

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March 22nd 1765
1. Passed by Britain because of the huge debts left from the 7 Years War.
2. imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies.

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March 18th 1766
1. stated that the British Parliament's authority was the same in America as in Great Britain.
2. Passed after the repeal of the Stamp Act, but hardened its principle by consuming all power to make laws in America.

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June 15th-July 2nd 1767
1. Named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
2. The purpose was to raise revenue in the colonies to pay for the salaries of the officials so they would stay loyal to Britain.

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Aug. 14th 1765
1. A secret organization formed to protect the rights of colonists and to fight taxation by the British government.
2. Consisted of extreme patriots and later disband after the Stamp Act was repelled.

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May 10th 1773
1. The act was passed to help the East India Company sell their 18 million pounds worth of tea.
2. The act would allow the company to sell tea directly to the colonists, which would under cut the business of local merchants.

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March 5th 1770
1. Began with Colonists protesting the occupation of their city by British troops. Cap. Thomas Preston was in command at that time and when the crowd started throwing snowballs at the soldiers, Private Hugh Montgomery discharged his rifle and soon, the other soldiers started firing too.
2. 5 colonists died and 3 were injured and 2 of the soldiers was charged for manslaughter.

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Oct. 7th 1763
1. Forbade all settlements past a drawn line along the Appalachian Mountains.
2. Passed after the Treaty of Paris.

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June 9th 1772
1. HMS Gaspee was a British schooner sent to Rhode Island for anti-smuggling operations. It was chasing the boat "Hannah" led by John Brown, but it was lured into the shallow water. Brown led his men boarding the Gaspee, and then attacked,  looted, and torched the ship.
2. The event renewed the hatred between Britain and colonists after the Boston Massacre.

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Dec. 16th 1773
1. The British sent a ship full of tea which the colonist had to pay for.
2. The colonists disguised themselves as Indians and began dumping the tea in the Boston Harbor

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March 24th 1774
1. These were a series of acts passed in retaliation after the Boston Tea Party.
2. These acts gave more authority to British officials and officers, for example all of Massachusetts' election candidates were chosen by the king.

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April 19th 1775
1. General Gage was going to go to Lexington to capture leaders Sam Adams and John Hancock then go to Concord to seize gunpowder, but his plan was leaked.
2. Paul Revere rode through the town yelling "the British are coming" and American troops went and encountered the British.

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Sept. 5th 1774
1. 12 of the 13 colonies sent delegates to Philadelphia to talk about the authority of Great Britain.
2. They would all come to an agreement urging the colonists not to import or use British goods.