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The Boston Tea Party
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Sugar Act created
This act was the first law made by the British that put even more duties on non-British goods shipped over to the colonies. -
Currency Act created
This was the second law created which made colonists unable to distrubte their currency. -
Stamp Act created
The Stamp Act was created to tax newspapers, almanacs, pamphlets, broadsides, legal documents, dice, and playing cards. -
Quartering Act created
The Quartering Act siad that American Colonists had to provide a home, food, and supplies for British soliders. -
Repeal of the Stamp Act
British repealed the Stamp Act and Colonists stopped their ban on British goods. -
Townshend Act created
The Townshend Act was created to taxes glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
Townshend Act cut back
Because boycott created low-profits parliment stopped all of the Townshend Act taxes except for taxes on tea. -
Boston Massacer
This was a horrific day in Boston history. A group of protesters were protesting on the streets of Boston. Soliders started crowding around the protesters. Then gunfire erruputed killing three Americans and wouding two others. -
Tea Act created
The British had the tea they shipped to the colonists cheaper so colonists would buy it over the American Tea. This made some Colonists outraged -
Boston Tea Party
When British ships full of tea came into the harbor many people wanted them to go back to Britian. When the ship came to port a group of men snuck onto the ships and dumped pounds and pounds of tea overboard. -
Coercive Act
After the Boston Tea Party the British were outraged by what had happened. To punish the Colonists the British created several acts such as the Massachusetts Goverment Act.They were also called Intolerable Acts. -
New England prepares for war
British troops begin taking ammunition from the colony of Massachusetts. -
New England Restraining Act created
This act banned trade between the Colonies and any other countries besides Great Britain. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
The British were planning to destroy all the ammunition they took but the colonists were waiting for them. By the end of the day, many men were dead.
