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- Stamp Act
- Stamp Act of 1765Taxing items like newspaper.
- Stamp Act (2)
- Stamp Act
- Boston Massacre
- The Stamp Act was an act passed by Parliament in 1765 that taxed items such as newspapers and pamphlets. Colonists strongly resented the new taxes, and saw them as an attack on their rights.
- Boston Tea Party
- Colonists protested No Taxation Without Representation. They felt that Parliament had no right to tax them since they had no representatives in Parliament. Eventually Parliament repealed the Stamp Act, but still maintained its right to tax the colonists.
- Declaration of Independence
- The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occured in March 1770 between British soldiers and a crowd in Boston. After being hit with stones and snowballs, the soldiers opened fire, killing five protestors . This caused the colonists' anger to grow.
- Revolutionary War
- In December 1773, a large group of Massechusets colonists dressed up as Native Americans and dumped 342 chests of recently arrived British tea into the sea., protesting a tax on tea. The incident became known as the Boston Tea Party. Colonists gathered to help Massechusets after Parliament passed laws to punish them.
- In 1776, Congress voted to gain independence from Britain. Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jeffeerson, John Adams, Robert R. Livingston , and Roger Shermon were the comitee who drafted it.
- Declaration of independence
- The revolutionary war was a war fought by the British and the American colonists, The colonists eventually won.
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