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Description of Event

Anger Rating 1-10 6

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2 Higher level Questions

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Proclamation of 1763

The formal announcement that stated that the colonists cant settle past the Appalachians.

The colonists got tired of the king and ignored the proclamation.

Quartering Act

This makes the colonists give the British soldiers a home if they needed one and provide the all that they need.

Because the colonists didnt like the British troops in their home.

Stamp Act

Townshend Acts

Boston Massacre

Since the British were in debt after the French and Indian war the British made the colonists pay taxes on printed materials and stamps to stick on documents. The prime minister imposed the Townshend act that they made the colonists pay a tax on leads, glass, paper, and tea. This tax was collected on the sea ports. On March 5, 1770 a mob of colonists were taunting the British troops by throwing snowballs, so the troops shot at the

Because it made the colonists mad but they really didnt do anything.

Why did the colonists want the land in the first place? Why couldnt the king just send guards to watch the colonists in the new land? Why did the troops need a home instead of getting their own home? Why couldnt the troops have money to provide for their own needs? Why did they need to buy stamps on newspapers? Why couldnt the king just tax Britain? Why were the taxes collected at the sea ports and not in the city? Why was the tax on leads and glass instead of property tax? Why couldnt the troops just control the colonists rather than shooting them?

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Basically the same as the stamp act, the colonists didnt like the acts but nothing really happened over it. This was a 9 because there were people that died during this event.

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Boston Tea Party

The Intolerable Acts

In 1773 the tea act was passed and it made the colonists buy tea from the East Indies company. This made the colonists made. So the Sons of liberty organized the tea party which was that the colonists dressed as Native Americans and dumped all the tea in the bay. It as the coercive act that made the colonists pay for all the tea that was dumped in the bay. It was called the intolerable acts because the colonists felt that they could not tolerate them.

This is an 8 because the colonists revolted against the tea act.

Why didnt the king punish the troops for that? Why did the colonists dress up a Native Americans? Why did the colonists just dump tea and not take anything else?

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This is a 3 because all that happened was that the colonists were taxed.

Why would the colonists actually pay for the tax? Couldnt the king just pay for the tea?

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First Continental Congress

Lexington and Concord

It was 4 representatives from 12 of the 13 colonies that formed to show Britain that they were a unified group. It was when 10 the cities that the British troops left from Boston to seize the rebel leaders and take gunpowder and firearms.

This is a 4 because the colonies finally united as one.

Why didnt the The reading colonies do this earlier? Why were there only 12 representatives?

This is a 10 because this marks the beginning of the revolutionary war.

Why was it in these two cities? Why were the troops only in Boston?

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