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Path to Revolution
Coercive Acts
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Intended to make Massachusetts to pay for resistance, damage, and destruction of tea by closing down British harbor
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Boston Massacre
This was the bloody confrontation between the angry colonists and British troops stationed there. The colonist aggrevating the redcoats caused them to shot into the mob and they killed about 10 people
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Paul Revere engraves a retelling of this Massacre, which spreads rapidly across the colonies
End of Salutary Neglect
was Robert Walpole's relaxed policy towards the American colonies, which gave them greater independence in pursing both economic and political interests
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Land Proclamation of 1763, Quartering Act, and a standing Army are the first causes of tension that follow the end of Salutary Neglect
The Townshend Acts tax sugar, tea, stamp, glass, etc- this angers colonists
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Boston Tea Party
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During the Tea Act, the British tried to sneak in tea to maintain their act. A group of Patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians snuck into a ship full of British tea and poured $800 worth of tea into the harbor
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1st Continental Congress
Was the assembly of colonial patriot leaders in Philadelphia in September 1774 in response to the Coercive Act
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