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The Stamp Act, Lexington and Concord, The Coercive Acts, The Boston Tea…
The Stamp Act
Colonists created a mob (Sons of Liberty) and paraded through the streets with a model/effigy of Andrew Oliver, Boston's stamp distributor, and hanged and beheaded the model from the Liberty Tree before ransacking Andrew Oliver's home.
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Lexington and Concord
The colonies/colonists came together and decided to battle the red coats while they were coming to Lexington to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock. The colonists were outnumbered and most of them were wounded and/or killed. Despite the number of colonists injured they fired constantly at the red coats for 18 miles. The colonists antics showed that they were to be taken seriously and proved that they can face one of the most powerful armies in the world.
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The Coercive Acts
The coercive acts were laws that restricted the colonists from many things in Boston, one act from the coercive acts is the quartering act (colonists had to house soldiers). Parliament expected the colonists to abandon the people of Boston to British law, while hoping that their acts would cut New England and Boston off from the rest of the colonies to prevent a resistance from all the colonies. Colonists responded to the Coercive Acts by uniting and negotiating a unified approach to the British.
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The Boston Tea Party
The colonists did not like or agree with the tea tax that Britain was forcing upon them because it caused them to only be able to buy tea from the British East India Company. So, to make a statement, they ruined more than 92,000 pounds of British tea by dumping into Boston Harbor.
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The Townshend Acts
The sons of liberty (colonists who were against the British taxes) convinced 24 towns in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts to boycott British goods with the "no taxation without representation" phrase. Patriot colonists would also often intimidate merchants who were selling British goods and would go as far as vandalizing their stores and intimidating their customers as well.
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The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a useful propaganda for the colonists, specifically after Paul Revere's engraving of the British troops, which perceived the British in a very negative way. This was the start of people having anti-British views as a collective.
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