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The Townshend acts led to riots in Boston. The riots led customs officials to demand more protection in June 1768. Britain responded by sending 4 regiments who the colonists mocked and harassed on March 5th, 1770 all of it came to a boil. Colonists began taunting and throwing snowballs with rocks in them at a british soldier, and he called for help. British troops began firing into the crowd, and the 1st man to die was named Crispus Attucks. Three people were dead on scene, 2 more people died and 6 were wounded. This became known as the Boston Massacre.

A tax put on every on printed material, like paper. This act helped pay for the French and Indian war, and the colonie shad to buy paper from Britain and there had to always be a stamp on each and every paper, which showed them they had to pay for the tax amount. The colonies did not think that was right, so they began a protest. The people in the colonies refused to pay the tax on paper and other paper materials, they also boycotted British merchants and their products. The stamp act was seen as injustice by the colonies and they decided to fight for their rights.

The Boston Tea party was a political protest by the sons of Liberty. In Boston the colonist had began smuggling in cheaper Dutch tea. The british had more than 17 million pounds of tea that needed to sell quick. The colonists took it as an advantage and attempted to cut the British out of the trade. In October of 1773, 1,253 chests of tea were sent to the colonies. A group of 150 men in boston dressed up as Native Americans snuck onto several of British ships to destroy the tea stored on the ship.People cheered as 342 chests of tea was thrown off the side of the ships this was called the Boston Tea party.

Spring of 1763 Chief Pontiac of the Ottawa people decided to start a war with England. He united several tribes because the Britain broke a treaty by moving into western Pennsylvania. The British leaders didn’t want to pay for another war. In October, 1763 king George III issued the Proclamation of 1763 , which drew a north-south line along the Appalachian Mountains. The colonist’s could not settle west of this line without permission this enraged some colonists who wanted access to this land.

The first tax on american colonies by the British parliament, passed April 5 1764, and the purpose was to raise revenue for the colonies. The act places a tax on sugar and molasses. This was also enforced to help stop the smuggling of sugar and molasses. The act also amended the Molasses Act of 1733. There were many different constitutional issues due to the act. For example, people felt like the act was a violation of their rights and were basically forced to raise revenue for the crown, they had no say in the matter. In effect to these problems, there were many protests which varied on how they impacted the colonies. Colonists initiated the phrase “No Taxation, Without Representation”. The 47 clauses gave strict rules on how shippers were required to trade.

This act began May 3, 1765 after the British Parliament met and decided to pass it. The act stated that british soldiers were to be given a home and food by the american colonies. The Americans had no say in this act, they were basically forced to give up their home. If the soldiers did not fit in the homes, the colonie would have to redirect them into local inns. The colonists believed that what the soldiers were doing was against their Bill of Rights. This act also upset the colonists because they had to pay for the lodging of the British soldiers, on top of paying for their food and a roof over their head. They also believed that they should not be paying for the soldiers that were stationed in the colonies, if they were not doing anything.

The Committees of Correspondence were temporary Patriot emergency governments made in response to British laws on the eve of the american revolution throughout the 13 Colonies. And Committees of Correspondence served as workers of communication throughout the 13 Colonies between Patriot leaders. On the way of the American Revolution, Committees of Correspondence were formed in cities and regions throughout the colonies. The Committees of Correspondence on the eve of the American Revolution were located in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina.

The Gaspee incident happened on June 9, 1772. A British customs ship, ran around in Rhode Island and a Sons of Liberty group attacked and set fire to the ship. The British Government scared them to send the American perpetrators for a trial in England, but there was no made. But their warning to send Americans to trial in England made protests in the colonies who were told of the make the Committees of Correspondence. The making of the permanent Committees of Correspondence led to the founding of the First Continental Congress and then the Declaration of Independence.

The Coercive and intolerable was an act that the British government put together to make 5 laws. The four acts were the Boston Port Bill, which closed Boston Harbor, the Massachusetts Government Act, which replaced the elective local government, the Administration of Justice Act which allowed British officials charged with capital offenses to be tried in another colony. Some colonists fear that the Committee's proposed course of action will only bring more misery to the colonies because of the coercive and tolerable act. In September 1774 people from twelve of the American colonies came together in Philadelphia to discuss a unified course of resistance to the Coercive Acts. The Coercive Acts closed the port of Boston, unilaterally changed the government of Massachusetts.

t was a meeting of delegates of 12 out of the 13 colonies that became the United States. It was a reaction of the Coercive Acts, and it also served as the government for the American colonies. The first congress began because of the new resistance to taxation in the colonies. After the trade boycott with Great Britain, also known as the Continental Association, which was passed and signed by the First Continental Congress began an up roar. The association was a complete ban on all the trades between America and Great Britain. This resulted in a boycott from the colonies.