SS Section 3-4
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- "No Taxation without Representation"
- The colonists wouldn't pay any taxes, when their is no one representing the colonies, in parliment
- taxes Grenville wanted to pass
- Sugar act (1764 molasses) Stamp Act (1765, all legal documents, plus dice, and almanacs, playing cards)
- Events leading up to lexington
- British troops attempted to steal all colonies' weapons.
- Boston Massacre
- 1770- colonists threw rocks, ice, and oystershells at British soldiers infront of the Customs House. 5 died
- Townshend Acts
- taxed goods such as glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea
- Proclamation of 1763
- imaginary line at appalacian mountains, colonies werent allowed to go west of them
- Pontiac's War
- British troops attacked back at Pontiac for capturing their forts
- Boston Tea Party
- December 16, 1773. 50-60 colonists dressed as Mohawk indians, and dumped lots of tea from the British tea ships.
- Quartering Act
- colonists had to provide housing, candles, bedding, and water to the British troops
- Concord
- Where British troops thought all the weapons were
- Pontiac
- Ottawa chief who soke out against the British captured British forts
- First Continental Congress
- Sept 1774 12 delegates met in Philly. Only Georgia didn't come.
- Intolerable Acts
- punishments that parliament gave to boston for the boston tea party.
- 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
- George Grenville
- British prime minister who decided the colonists should help with the taxes
- Tea Act
- passed by parliment, tea ships weren't allowed to leave the harbor until taxes were paid.