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16 Cards in this Set
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1. Parliament levies taxes on stamps to pay
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for the French and Indian War.
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2. The Virginia House of Burgesses votes on a resolution claiming Parliament is practicing “taxation without representation”
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because Americans are not represented there.
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3. Stamp tax collectors arrive
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but resistance is strong.
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4. The British repeal the Stamp Act and Parliament passes customs duties on
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lead- paper- paint- glass- tea.
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5. Colonists boycott British goods
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and smuggle foreign goods.
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6. As imports decline ten thousand British troops arrive in America
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to help enforce tax laws and catch offenders.
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7. A crowd of men and boys throw sticks and snowballs at
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British soldiers outside the customs house in Boston.
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8. British troops kill five men
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and colonists spread news of the
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9. Angry colonists join the Sons of Liberty
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the Daughters of Liberty and Committees of Correspondence to create more active revolt.
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10. To break Americans’ resistance to taxes
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Parliament gives the British East India Company a monopoly
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11.Americans refuse to buy tea and
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colonists disguised as Indians throw 342 chests of tea into Boston harbor.
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12. Parliament removes Boston’s self-government by passing the
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Intolerable Acts.
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13. The colonies unite to aid the people of Massachusetts who are arming themselves
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and the First Continental Congress meets.
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14.General Thomas Gage sends British troops from Boston to Lexington and Concord to
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destroy colonial military supplies.
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15.Americans kill 250 British soldiers
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on their march back to Boston and begin to gather on hills around the city.
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16.General Gage sends his men to capture Bunker (Breed’s) Hill.
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Forty percent of his men die. The war is on.
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