The document provides a timeline of key events leading up to the American Revolution, including Britain passing taxes on the colonies through acts like the Stamp Act, colonists protesting through boycotts and the Boston Tea Party, and escalating tensions resulting in events like the Boston Massacre. It also mentions figures like Paul Revere and Crispus Attucks and how primary sources provide information about this period.

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2. 1766 Mercy Otis warren urged a boycott of British goods

3. Colonists might have served liberty tea from this teapot pained in protest of the stamp act

4. Crispust attucks was one of the victims of the Boston massacre .

5. 1775 The stamp act required that stamps like this be placed on all printed materials .

6. Boston massacre with the old state. 1770

7. 1765 London, Great Britain Britain’s parliament taxes the colonists

8. 1774 patriots formed militia ground to defend the colonies against the British.

9. After the Boston Tea party, British ships closed the port of Boston

10. Pictures can also be primary sources . This primary source is a famous engraving made by Paul Revere shortly after the Boston Massacre. It is in the newspaper article from the gazette and country journal

11. 1773 Boston Massachusetts Protesters dump tea in the harbor

12. 1768 British warships landed troops in Boston

13. 1765 A cartoon by Benjamin Franklin urged colonies to unite during the French and Indian war, but it also expressed colonial feelings about the stamp act. An engraving showed protester punishing tax stamp agents

14. 1765 King George 111 and members of parliament supported new laws to tax the colonists.

15. 1770 In the Boston Massacre ,British soldiers fired at a group of colonists ,killing five.

16. 1773 Disguised as Mohawks , colonists dumped British tea into Boston Harbor to protest the tea Act.;

17. 1766 After the French and Indian war, Parliament passed the stamp act to help raise money

18. 1767 Parliament repealed the stamp act after bitter protest in the colonies

19. Stamps were sometimes kept in a leather box .

20. 1775 Paul revere warned colonist that the British are advancing

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