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Founding of the Colonies
America was a place where they could provide an outlet for England's growing population while getting resources in the process, with that the founding colonies were created -
French and Indian War
America was a place where they could provide an outlet for England's growing population while getting resources in the process, with that the founding colonies were created -
"No Taxation Without Representation"
A phrase, generally attributed to James Otis about 1761, that reflected the resentment of American colonists at being taxed by a British Parliament -
Sugar Act
Colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of sixpence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses -
Sons of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty:An organization that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies.The secret society was formed to protect the rights of colonists and to fight taxation by the British government -
Boston Tea Party
Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. This resulted in the passage of the punitive Coercive Acts in 1774 and pushed the two sides closer to war -
Boston Blockade
British Parliament passes the Boston Port Act, closing the port of Boston and demanding that the city's residents pay for the nearly $1 million worth of tea dumped into Boston Harbor during the Boston Tea Party -
The Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts (also called the Coercive Acts) were harsh laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774. -
First Continental Congress
Delegates from the colonies, met in 1774 in reaction to the Coercive Acts, a series of measures imposed by the British government on the colonies in response to their resistance to new taxes -
Paul Revere's Ride
A poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that commemorates the actions of American patriot Paul Revere/ A ride Paul Revere's had to help Samuel Adams and John Hancock when they were going to get arrested -
Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War -
Thomas Paine's "Common Sense"
Common Sense challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy