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The Sugar Act
The sugar act reduced the rate of tax on molasses from six pence to three pence per gallon. -
The French and Indian war
The Indians and the French fought to come up with who would be the strong power in North America. -
The Proclamation of 1763
It was issued by the British to appease the Native Americans by checking the enroachment of European settlers. -
Stamp Act of 1766
The legislation levied a direct tax on all materials printed for commercial and legal use in the colonies. -
The Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts were a series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. -
The Boston Massacre
It was a deadly riot, it began as a street brawl between American colonists and a British soldier, but quickly turned into a chaotic, bloody slaughter. -
Boston Tea Party
It was a protest because the American colonists were mad at Britain for "taxing without representation". -
Tea Act
In an effort to save the troubled enterprise, the British Parliament passed the Tea Act -
Intolerable Acts
A series of British measures passed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party. -
Continental Congress
The Continental Congress was the governing body by which the American colonial governments coordinated their resistance to British rule during the first two years of the American Revolution.