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- british east india company
- brought tea to the colonies, but colonists boycotted taxed items, so 15 million pounds of tea sat unsold in British warehouses
- boston massacre
- Event in March 1770, which British troops fired upon a group of unarmed colonists
- quartering act
- the citizens of all the colonies had to house and feed British soldiers at their own expense
- pontiac
- an ottawa cheif-spoke out against british-led an attack on british troops at fort detriot-captured most british forts on the frontier
- events leading up to lexington
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- proclamation of 1763
- prohibited colonial migration and settlement west of the Appalachian Mts.
- george grenville
- British prime minister who decided the colonists should help with the taxes
- intolerable acts
- in response to Boston Tea Party, 4 acts passed in 1774, Port of Boston closed, reduced power of assemblies in colonies, permitted royal officers to be tried elsewhere, provided for quartering of troop's in barns and empty houses
- boston tea party
- december 16, 1773-50 to 60 people dressed as mohawk indians boarded the tea ships and dumped crates of tea into boston harbor
- first continental congress
- Delagates from all colonies except georgia met to discuss problems with britain and to promote independence
- the taxes george grenville wanted passed
- sugar act (1764)-stamp act (1765)
- concord
- the first battle of the American Revolution (April 19, 1775)
- no taxation without representation
- claimed taxes were unjust, insisted only they or their elected reps had the right to pass taxes, parliament had no right ot tax them since they didnt elect reps, and they were willing to pay taxes only if their colonial legislatures passed them.
- tea act
- tax on tea; made the east india company the only tea company allowed to colonists; reason for Tea Party (1773)
- townshend acts
- A tax that the British Parliament placed on leads, glass, paint and tea
- pontiac's war
- Brittish/colonial troops attacked back at Pontiac for capturing British forts