EVENTS LEADING TO REVOLUTIONARY WAR TIMELINE 2
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- The purpose of this taxes was to raise £40,000 a year for the administration of the colonies.
- The Townshend Act June 29 1767
- We are going to apply taxes on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea
- The colonists were not happy with this taxes so they started to revolt.
- March 5 1770 Boston Massacre
- Boston, Massachusets
- Fire!
- The Boston Tea Party Dec. 16 1773
- No taxation without representation
- The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston
- Boston Port act March 31 1774
- BOOOOO!!!
- For recent issues with the tea and the port we have decided to close the port and make the colonists pay for the lost tea.
- The Boston Port Act was one of the Intolerable Acts.
- Quarenting Act June 2 1774
- Come in, we have food and beds.
- We are going to move in with you and you have to comfort us.
- The quarantine act was one of the intolerable acts and it stated that the colonists had to "comfort" the British soldiers.
- Lexington and Concord April 19, 1775
- Now one knows who shot first if the redcoats or the minutemen
- This event sparked the American revolution.
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