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    The document summarizes key events that led to rising calls for independence in the American colonies from England. It describes the formation of groups like the Sons of Liberty and Daughters of Liberty to protest new British taxes and restrictions. It also mentions effective boycotts of British goods that led to the repeal of the Stamp Act, and growing coordination between colonies through committees of correspondence. Rising tensions escalated with events like the Boston Massacre and the battles at Lexington and Concord.

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    The document summarizes key events that led to rising calls for independence in the American colonies from England. It describes the formation of groups like the Sons of Liberty and Daughters of Liberty to protest new British taxes and restrictions. It also mentions effective boycotts of British goods that led to the repeal of the Stamp Act, and growing coordination between colonies through committees of correspondence. Rising tensions escalated with events like the Boston Massacre and the battles at Lexington and Concord.

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    The document summarizes key events that led to rising calls for independence in the American colonies from England. It describes the formation of groups like the Sons of Liberty and Daughters of Liberty to protest new British taxes and restrictions. It also mentions effective boycotts of British goods that led to the repeal of the Stamp Act, and growing coordination between colonies through committees of correspondence. Rising tensions escalated with events like the Boston Massacre and the battles at Lexington and Concord.

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    What am I learning today?

    How Englands changing policy


    towards its colonies led to rising
    calls for independence.

    The Road to
    the American
    Revolution

    The Sons of Liberty & Daughters of Liberty


    were formed to protest British restrictions &
    became the leaders of colonial resistance

    Mob reaction to the Stamp Act


    effective
    & to
    For The
    the colonial
    1st time,boycotts
    many were
    colonists
    refer
    Britain
    repealed the
    Act
    fellow
    boycotters
    asStamp
    patriots

    Indirect tax on lead,


    glass, paper, tea, etc.

    More Boycotts

    Colonists
    created
    committees of
    correspondence
    to communicate
    with each other

    Paul Reveres etching of the Boston Massacre


    became an American best-seller
    Colonists injured
    With only 4 dead, this
    British soldiers by
    was hardly a massacre
    throwing snowballs but it reveals the power of
    & oyster shells
    colonial propaganda

    First
    Continental Congress
    We have to
    help Boston

    Lexington & Concord

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