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British attacks on coastal towns, The coercive acts, The Boston tea party,…
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The coercive acts
But perhaps the most provocative provision was the Quartering Act, which allowed British military officials to demand accommodations for their troops in unoccupied houses and buildings in towns, rather than having to stay out in the countryside.
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The Boston tea party
That didn’t sit well with Americans. “They didn’t want the British telling them that they had to buy their tea, but it wasn’t just about that,” Randall explains. “The Americans wanted to be able to trade with any country they wanted.”
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The stamp act
“They felt that they’d spent a lot of blood and treasure to protect the colonists from the Indians, and so they should pay their share.”
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The townshend act
Americans struck back by organizing a boycott of the British goods that were subject to taxation, and began harassing the British customs commissioners
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The Boston massacre
The massacre became a useful propaganda tool for the colonists, especially after Paul Revere distributed an engraving that misleadingly depicted the British as the aggressors
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Lexington and concord
On the Lexington Common, the British force was confronted by 77 American militiamen, and they began shooting at each other. Seven Americans died, but other militiamen managed to stop the British at Concord, and continued to harass them on their retreat back to Boston.
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