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American colonists were upset about how the British put tax on stamps so they can get out of debt from the French and Indian War
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The English Parliament passed on the law that said American Citizens were to provide quarters for the British. The quarters they were conversing about are not the kind you get when you add two dimes and a nickel. They had initially quartered in their towns, or cities, or even in their country. The soldiers had arrived in 1765.
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Who created the first part of the ripple effect?
Was it the redcoats, or was it the citizens who were in front of the Boston Customs house, where the British soldiers stood?
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One man amongst the crowd was present during the event; Crispus Atticus, a slave in Framington, Massachusetts. He had observed the fiasco and was found in court proclaiming that the townspeople were threatening them with common, but harmful weapons. An unidentified soldier calls for help, then Captain Preston and seven soldiers hastened back to aid the guard. When suddenly a musket shot rang out, the soldier fired aimlessly with panic because he
thought he was ordered to do so.
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In Boston harbor, a group of colonists from Massachusetts, disguise themselves as Mohawk Indians. They board three British ships that are loaded with tea. They dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor. They had been protesting the British parliament’s tea act of 1773, with a bill designed to save the faltering East India company to lessen the amount of tea that was smuggled into America by Dutch traders. Many other colonists thought the act was another example to tax tyranny. The three ships; the Dartmouth, the Eleanor, and the Beaver, arrived in Boston. The colonists demanded that the tea should be sent back to England. Samuel Adams organized the “tea party” with almost sixty members of the Sons Of Liberty, his hidden resistance group. The amount of tea that was thrown was worth $18,000 at the night of December 16th.
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In 1765, Patrick Henry was elected into the House of Burgesses. He spoke out against the stamp act and said that the British, along with King George lll, were examples of tyranny. King George treated the colonists very poorly. The British enacted laws that said that there is tax for every piece of paper that is bought.
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