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Stamp Act Congress
1st major cooperative action by colonists
Desired the right to be consented on taxes
Committees of Correspondence
Exchanged ideas and information about resistance to British acts
Sons of Liberty
Effigy hangings, mock funerals, riots, acts of “barbarism”
Boston, MA
Boycotts
Daughters of Liberty – Spinning Bees
Non importation agreements
Dickinson’s Letters
Exposes unconstitutionality of British Acts
Boston Massacre
Colonists antagonize British soldiers
Used as anti- British propaganda
Gaspee Affair
Colonists attack, loot, and burn British ship
Rhode Island
Boston Tea Party
Colonists dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor
Disguised as Mohawk Indians
1st Continental Congress
Representatives from 12 colonies meet in Philadelphia, PA
Petition King George III
Olive Branch Petition
Created by John Dickinson – 2nd Continental Congress
Final attempt to reconcile with KGIII
Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776
Composed by Thomas Jefferson