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Circular letter adopted in Massachusetts
Samuel Adams’s circular letter decrying taxation without representation was adopted by the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
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American assemblies dissolved
British administrators in the colonies dissolved American assemblies.
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British troops in Boston
British troops arrived in Boston to quell the growing unrest among colonists.
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Battle of Golden Hill
Increased tensions between the colonies and the Crown lead to the Battle of Golden Hill, fought between British soldiers and colonial civilians in New York City. The skirmish resulted in one fatality.
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Townshend duties repealed
Parliament repealed all of the Townshend duties except the tea tax.
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Burning of the Gaspee
Colonists near Providence, Rhode Island, burned the British customs schooner Gaspee after it ran aground.
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Tea Act
To save the East India Company from bankruptcy, Parliament implemented the Tea Act, authorizing the company to sell a huge tea surplus directly to the public without payment of duty. The action outraged established tea merchants and effectively gave a monopoly to the East India Company.
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Colonial condemnation of Tea Act
The Virginia and Massachusetts Committees of Correspondence condemned the Tea Act.
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Minutemen established
The first group of minutemen was organized in Massachusetts in September 1774.