Shend Act
Taxing of the colonists increased.
Tax on every piece of printed paper; legal documents, licenses, newspapers etc.
Placed new taxes
Required colonists to buy
only from the British East India Company. Colonists
response:
Required colonists to provide housing for British soldiers
Also included: closing Boston Harbor until ruined tea was paid for and made town meetings illegal.
Act of 1773
Sent a
First Continental
Congress
Thomas Paine's
to King George asking him to respect the colonists' rights as British citizens.
Organized a
of British goods and banned trade with Britain.
The 1776 publication moved colonists to declare independence from England.
econd
ontinental
ongress
Fighting between colonist and British had begun. Approved the Declaration of Independence
Ch.2understanding the Declaration of Independence Ch.2
In this section you may need to look at the actual text within the Declaration of Independence to respond accurately!
Efferent parts of the Declaration of Independence
Meaning of the parts of the Declaration.
People are born with certain rights that can't be ta