1768- British sent troops to Boston, in fear of rebellion.
March 5, 1770- Boston Massacre, Fight between towns people and soldiers.
Committee of Correspondence- Set up propaganda for anti-British.
1773- Tea Act, Save East India Trading Company, but put small colonial merchants out of business.
December 16, 1773- Boston Tea Party- Sons of Liberty, dresses like Mohawk Indians, threw 342 chests of tea overboard.
Coercive Acts- Laws intended to punish the colonists, Closed Boston Harbour.
1774- Quebec Act, Set up a permanent government for Quebec and granted religious freedom for French Catholics.
Colonist called the laws the Intolerable Acts.
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