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Stamp Act -Parliament passes Stamp Act -placed a direct tax on the colonists -required

Stamp Act -Parliament passes Stamp Act -placed a direct tax on the colonists -required stamp on all legal documents, newspapers, license, and cards -affected many colonists rich and poor -Quartering Act, 1765

Stamp Act -Parliament passes Stamp Act -placed a direct tax on the colonists -required

Stamp Act -Parliament passes Stamp Act -placed a direct tax on the colonists -required stamp on all legal documents, newspapers, license, and cards -affected many colonists rich and poor -Quartering Act, 1765

Resistance Begins -Sons of Liberty Boston Samuel Adams John Adams -no taxation w/o representation

Resistance Begins -Sons of Liberty Boston Samuel Adams John Adams -no taxation w/o representation -protests and boycotts were organized -stamp agents were harassed -law eventually repealed -Declaratory Act– states that Parliament has the right to declare laws for British colonies

Resistance Begins -Sons of Liberty Boston Samuel Adams John Adams -no taxation w/o representation

Resistance Begins -Sons of Liberty Boston Samuel Adams John Adams -no taxation w/o representation -protests and boycotts were organized -stamp agents were harassed -law eventually repealed -Declaratory Act– states that Parliament has the right to declare laws for British colonies

Resistance Begins -Sons of Liberty Boston Samuel Adams John Adams -no taxation w/o representation

Resistance Begins -Sons of Liberty Boston Samuel Adams John Adams -no taxation w/o representation -protests and boycotts were organized -stamp agents were harassed -law eventually repealed -Declaratory Act– states that Parliament has the right to declare laws for British colonies

Townshend Acts -new tax placed on imports such as tea, glass, paper, paint -colonists

Townshend Acts -new tax placed on imports such as tea, glass, paper, paint -colonists again reacted with protests -British reacted by sending more troops

Boston Massacre -March 1770 -protests by colonists -British troops fire on crowd -5 colonists

Boston Massacre -March 1770 -protests by colonists -British troops fire on crowd -5 colonists killed Crispus Attucks -Most soldiers found not guilty John Adams served as attorney for the soldiers

Boston Tea Party -tax on tea still remain in effect -monopoly on tea given

Boston Tea Party -tax on tea still remain in effect -monopoly on tea given to British company -Dec. 1773 colonists raided Boston harbor and threw the tea overboard and burned the ships

Intolerable Acts -Parliament passes Coercive Acts in reaction -Colonist call it the Intolerable Acts

Intolerable Acts -Parliament passes Coercive Acts in reaction -Colonist call it the Intolerable Acts -closed Boston Harbor -suspended basic civil rights -housed troops in peoples’ homes -Committees of Correspondence

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