American Revolution by Aniya Cutler

Sugar Act 1764

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It provided for a strongly enforced tax on sugar, molasses, and other products imported into the American colonies from non-British Caribbean sources. The act was also called the Plantation Act or the Revenue Act.

Stamp Act 1765

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The act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp. It was taken on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards.

Quartering Acts 1765

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Stated that Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and public houses. If the soldiers outnumbered colonial housing, they would be quartered in inns, alehouses, barns, other building.

Boston Massacue 1770

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British sentries guarding the Boston Custom House shot into a crowd of civilians, killing three men and injuring eight, two of them mortally. Some soldiers guarding the British Customs House were taunted by a crowd of citizens.

Boston Tea Party 1773

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It was an act of protest in which a group of 60 American colonists threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to agitate against both a tax on tea and the perceived monopoly of the East India Company. It occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffins Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts.

First Continent Congress 1774

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Formally declared that colonies should have the same rights as Englishment. Prompted by the Coercive Acts, knowm in America as the intolerable Acts.

Townsend Acts 1767

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The Townshend Acts were a series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. American Colonists, who had no representation in Parliament, saw the Acts as an abuse of power.