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7 Cards in this Set
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Stamp Act
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(1765) Law passed by Parliament that raised tax money by requiring colonists to pay for an official stamp whenever they bought paper items such as newspapers, licenses, and legal documents.
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Sugar Act
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(1764) Law passed by the British Parliament setting taxes on molasses and sugar imported by the colonies.
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Sons Of Liberty
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Secret societies formed in the mid-1700s by colonists to protest new taxes and to frighten tax collectors.
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Townshend Acts
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(1767) Laws passed by Parliament placing duties on certain items imported by the colonists.
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Boston Massacre
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Tension between colonists and british troops.... led to the eventually soldiers killed colonists
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Boston Tea Party
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(1773) Protest against the Tea Act in which a group of colonists boarded British tea ships and dumped some 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor.
Effect: prime minister decides to punish ma intolerable acts are passed |
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Second Continental Congress
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(1775) Meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to decide how to react to fighting at Lexington and Concord.
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