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Stamp Act

Published on Dec 02, 2015

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1.

STAMP ACT

  • 1765
  • Stamps were put on all paper products
  • "No taxation without representation"
2.

THE QUARTERING ACT

  • 1765
  • Ordered colonists to house soldiers.
3.

TOWNSHEND ACTS

  • 1765
  • Taxes on goods from Britain
4.

Boston Massacre

  • 5 dead, 2 injured
  • soldiers = no shooting
Photo by Marion Doss
5.

The Boston Tea Party

  • 1773
  • only created more protests
Photo by City of Boston Archives
6.

Tea Act

  • lower tea prices
  • ships raided
  • 90,000 lbs. of tea thrown overboard
7.

Intolerable Acts

  • 1774
  • Took away Massachusetts' self-government

Devynn Guzman