Tax on sugar and sugar products. - Sugar Act 1764, Taxed all paper goods: newspapers, legal documents, playing cards. - Stamp Act 1765, British soldiers sent to the colonies to enforce laws/taxes and to keep order - The Quartering Act 1765, Parliament created a tax on imported tea, glass, paper, paint, and lead - Townshend Acts 1767, British soldiers fire into a crowd of colonists who had been harassing them. 5 Colonists are killed. - The Boston Massacre 1770, A sailor of Mixed African and Indigenous ancestry - Crispus Attucks, Samuel Adams - Sons of Liberty leader in Boston. - Sons and Daughters of Liberty, In 1773, Parliament passed the Tea Act that lowered the cost of British tea  - Tea Act 1773, Laws were supposed to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party: - Intolerable Acts 1774, Met in Sept 1774 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. - First Continental Congress 1774, Appointed George Washington as the commander in chief of the new Continental Army - 2nd Continental Congress 1775, Written by Thomas Jefferson - Declaration of Independence ,

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