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rallied support for colonial resistance through the use of petitions, assemblies, and propaganda, and they sometimes resorted to violence against British officials -
Act cut the duty on foreign molasses from 6 to 3 pence per gallon, retained a high duty on foreign refined sugar, and prohibited the importation of all foreign rum -
This policy effectively ended after the French and Indian War in 1763, when the British made the decision to reinforce the Navigation Acts -
initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea -
A clash between British troops and townspeople in Boston in 1770, before the Revolutionary Wa -
a way for colonial legislatures to communicate with their agents in London -
a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts -
the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act -
formally declared that colonists should have the same rights as Englishmen -
Massachusetts colonists defied British authority, outnumbered and outfought the Redcoats, and embarked on a lengthy war to earn their independence -
"Give me liberty or give me death!" is a quotation attributed to American politician and orator Patrick Henry from a speech he made to the Second Virginia Convention on March 23, 1775 -
he governing body by which the American colonial governments coordinated their resistance to British rule during the first two years of the American Revolution. -
to be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared -
made a clear case for independence and directly attacked the political, economic, and ideological obstacles to achieving it. -
The Declaration of Independence, formally titled The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America in the engrossed version and original printing, is the founding document of the United States.