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Events Mixed-Up


_______ A crowd of men and boys throw sticks and snowballs at British soldiers outside
the customs house in Boston.

_______ Parliament removes Boston’s self-government by passing the Intolerable Acts.

_______ Colonists boycott British goods and smuggle foreign goods.

_______ Parliament levies taxes on stamps to pay for the French and Indian War.

_______ As imports decline ten thousand British troops arrive in America to help enforce
tax laws and catch offenders.

_______ General Gage sends his men to capture Bunker (Breed’s) Hill. Forty percent of his
men die. The war is on.

_______ Stamp tax collectors arrive, but resistance is strong. Some Americans burn tax
collectors’ houses.

_______ The colonies unite to aid the people of Massachusetts who are arming
themselves, and the First Continental Congress meets.

_______ To break Americans’ resistance to taxes, Parliament gives the British East India
Company a monopoly on tea that helps lower the price.

_______ British troops kill five men, and colonists spread news of the "Boston Massacre."

_______ The Virginia House of Burgesses votes on a resolution claiming Parliament is
practicing "taxation without representation" because Americans are not represented
there.

_______ Americans refuse to buy tea and colonists disguised as Indians throw 342 chests
of tea into Boston harbor.

_______ Angry colonists join the Sons of Liberty, the Daughters of Liberty, and Committees
of Correspondence to create more active revolt.

_______ The British repeal the Stamp Act and Parliament passes customs duties on lead,
paper, paint, glass, and tea.

_______ Americans kill 250 British soldiers on their march back to Boston and begin to
gather on hills around the city

_______ General Thomas Gage in sends British troops from Boston to Lexington and Concord to destroy colonial military supplies.