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The Sugar Act
On April 5, 1764, Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act (1763), which was about to expire. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses. -
Patrick Henry's "If This Be Treason" Speech
During the revolution and for sometime after, was synonymous with that word in the minds of colonists and Empire alike. Henry's reputation as a passionate and fiery orator exceeded even that of Samuel Adams. -
The Stamp Act Congress
The Stamp Act Congress or the First Congress of the American Colonies was a meeting held between October 7 and 25, 1765 in New York City, consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America; it was the first gathering of elected representatives from several of the American colonies to devise a unified protest against new British Taxation. -
The Stamp Act Congress
A meeting held between October 7 and 25, 1765 in New York City, consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America; it was the first gathering of elected representatives from several of the American colonies to devise a unified protest against taxation. -
Townshend Acts
A series of acts passed -beginning in 1767- by the parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America.The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program -
The Boston Massacre
A street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speechwriters to rouse the ire of the citizenry. -
The Boston Tea Party
A group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships moored in Boston Harbor and dump 342 chests of tea into the water. Now known as the Boston Tea Party, the midnight raid was a protest of the Tea Act of 1773. -
The French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as The Seven Years' War. The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with The Treaty of Paris in 1763
