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Tanning and Feathering was not used until the American colonists reused the punishment in the 1760s. Patriots used it against British officials and loyalists in the American colonies.
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The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768
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Customs ships continued to patrol the sea off the coast of America. They would regularly stop merchant ships to examine their cargo looking for illegal goods, and enforcing British customs and taxation laws. The Gaspee was a British Royal Navy ship assigned to customs duty
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News was worte in hand, letters that were carried aboard ships or by couriers on horseback. Those means were employed by the critics of British imperial policy in America to spread their interpretations of current events.
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Was a group of men that went onto the ship that full of tea. They dumped 342 boxes of tea into the bay. Many people think that the men made a lot of nosie but they made little of no nosie when doing it.
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The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes
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The First Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia's Carpenters Hall on September 5, 1774. The idea of such a meeting was advanced a year earlier by Benjamin Franklin, but failed to gain much support until after the Port of Boston was closed in response to the Boston Tea Party.
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Quatering Act- Made to supply to the troops with their own money. Boston Port Bill Close to port of boston until the damages of the tea party was clean-Administration of Justice Act- This bill stated that British Officials could not be tried in provincial courts for capital crimes-Massachusetts Government Act- This bill effectively annulled the charter of the colonies, giving the British Governor complete control of the town meetings-Quebec Act-May 20, 1774 wont let anyone past the Conn, Mass,Va
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It was to show that they wanted freedom from their mother land of Great Britian. It also brought together the 13 colonies as one.
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