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 * Revolution** - a sudden, complete or marked change


 * Four Events that Led Up To the Revolutionary War**

__The Tea Act__ In 1773, Britain's East India Company had large amounts of tea that they could not sell in England. It was almost going bankrupt. When they tried to save it, the government passed the __Tea Act of 1773__, which gave the company the right to export their merchandise directly to the colonies without paying any of the taxes that were applied on the colonist, who had usually served as the middlemen in these situations.

__The Boston Tea Party__ On November 27, when British tea ships arrived in Boston harbor, many people who lived in Boston wanted the tea to be sent back England because of high taxes. On December 16, a group of colonists, had disguised as Indians, andsnuck onto the ships and tossed 342 boxes of tea into Boston Harbor. Britain responded to this, known as The Boston Tea Party, by passing the __Intolerable Coercive Acts in 1774__.

__The Boston Massacre__ The Boston Massacre was the killing of five men by British soldiers on March 5, 1770. The soldiers were in Boston to keep order of the people, but the town’s people saw them as spies and trouble. The Boston Massacre began when a young man shouted an insult at one of British officers. A soldier on duty front of a house supposedly hit the boy with his rifle. The boy yelled for help, and a crowd of colonist looking for trouble gathered around.

__The Revolution Had Begun__ On April 18th, the Boston Committee of Safety discovered the British plan to send troops to Concord to stop attacking and stop arguments. Paul Revere and William Dawes were sent to pass along the warning and alert the Minute Men. On the 19th, the British troops came and approached the Minute Men at Lexington. When they saw each other, a show heard around the world was fired and the American Revolution had begun.

//"I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death." -Patrick Henry//
 * We will fight today, and not back down for the sake of our country. We will do what is right and fight for our rights, defending our country and the people we love. You will obey the orders and we will succeed and this day will go down in history. We will show the Red Coats what we can do. We will fight because of the Tea Act, which allowed them to not pay the taxes which us colonists payed. The Boston Tea Party where we showed them that the taxes were to high and it was and outrage. We did that and poured all those boxes of tea into the harbor for our right! The Boston Massacre where innocent people got shot for just aguring with the soldiers. Finally, yesterday when we were alarmed about the Red Coats attacking us today. Now its our turn to fight, and today men we will!**

Sources: http://www.theamericanrevolution.org/hevents/bmassacr.asp http://www.americanrevolution.com/EventsLeadingTo.htm http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/E/teaparty/bostonxx.htm http://library.thinkquest.org/TQ0312848/quotes.htm#Patrick%20Henry