Colonists Unrest
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- Yes and we are going to boycott the new taxes.
- Stamp Act 1765
- Did you hear about the new tax?
- Townshend Act 1767
- Did you hear British are going to tax us for glass, lead, tea, and paper?
- I think we should boycott them again.
- Boston Massacre 1770
- taxes suck!
- the government is unfair
- Colonists are angry because the British are going to start taxing newspapers, marriage licenses, playing cards, and pamphlets.Colonists are going to start boycotting British goods
- Boston Tea Party 1773
- Stop doing that!
- New taxes on glass, lead, tea, and paper on colonists.Colonists recognized the tax and grew angry all over again. Another boycott of British goods again
- Intolerable Acts 1774
- I am sick of taxes we should start governing ourselves.
- I agree I am done with all of British taxes.
- A crowed of colonists argue with British soldiers and turned into chaos when a soldier shot his gun. Colonists are shot and 5 are killed.
- Lexington and Concord 1775
- British force colonists to buy tea only from them. Colonists didn't like this idea so they raided a British ship and threw chests of tea into the ocean.
- Colonists were taxed more and lost some rights. Massachusetts colonists started governing themselves.
- British troops left Boston on a march to Lexington and Concord. They were looking for a stockpile of colonial weapons and two men. A shot was fired and the American Revolution began.
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