... to pass the Stamp Act of 1765. The act placed new duties on legal documents such as wills, diplomats, and marriage papers. All items named in the law had to carry a stamp showing that the tax had been paid. In May 1767, Parliament reopened the ... in what became known as the First Continental Congress. After much debate, the delegates passed a resolution backing Massachusetts in its struggle. They agreed to boycott all British goods and to stop exporting goods to Britain until Intolerable Act was repealed. On April 8, about 700 British troops left Boston. Their goal was ... in the brut...

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... , and 25 missing. The Americans were decreased because of 88 to death or wounded. The first real battle of the American Revolution was at Bunker Hill in Massuchetts on June 17th 1775. This occurred about two months after Lexington and Concord. The British had increased their power and force in ... They found out that the British army was going to take over the hills around Boston. On June 16th, Colonel Prescott was sent out to occupy Bunker Hill. Bunker Hill is a small peninsula in the Charles River. Colonel Prescott occupied the joint land called Breed's Hill and that was real close to t...

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... . It was established in 1630 by John Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Company. No city in the United States is as blessed as Boston when it comes to historical sites. All of the sites that I will describe to you are a part of the Freedom Trail. Anyone interested in traveling to Boston for the first time should check out the Freedom Trail ... . Some of the original pieces are the two doors, the foundation, three of the window frames, and the raftering. Another sacred site in Boston is the Bunker Hill Monument, built to honor the Battle of Bunker Hill, on July 17, 1775. In 1842, this monum...

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... court in Salem convicted and hung 19 people as witches. Soon many people turned against the witch trials. So in October the governor of Salem ended the trials and released all suspected witches. Another very famous event that occurred in Massachusetts was the Boston Tea Party. In 1773 several citizens of Boston dumped 342 chests of British tea into Boston Harbor ... way. The Battle of Concord was a great American victory. An even greater battle was fought in what is now Boston on June 17, 1775. This was the famous Battle of Bunker Hill. The English claimed victory because they took the ...

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