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Answer:
<u>Boston Massacre</u>
Planned by the sons of liberty to oppose heavy tax rates
British soldiers attacked colonist, five killed
<u>Boston Tea Party</u>
Colonists dressed up as mohawk Indians destroy 342 crates of tea.
Led to the formation of the comities of correspondence.
Gypsies, Freemasons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Homosexuals, the mentally and physically disabled, the terminally ill, Communists, liberals, and socialist.
Answer:
Franklin earned the title of the “First American” for his efforts to unite the 13 American colonies, and for his long campaign for American independence from England. ... In 1765, he opposed the Stamp Act, which was a direct tax by the British Parliament on American colonies.
Explanation:
Benjamin Franklin is often called the “father“ of America, the fabulous American, or “the first American”, or as a anonymous reporter from 1856 wrote in the New York Times that Franklin “was the incarnation of the true American character. Benjamin Franklin was a Founding Father and a polymath, inventor, scientist, printer, politician, freemason and diplomat. Franklin helped to draft the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, and he negotiated the 1783 Treaty of Paris ending the Revolutionary War.
<span>On July 20, 1636, a trader named John Oldham was attacked on a trading voyage to Block Island. He and several of his crew were killed and his ship was looted by Narragansett-allied Indians who sought to discourage English settlers from trading with Pequot rivals. In the weeks that followed, colonial officials from Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, assumed the Narragansett were likely culprits. Puritan officials became equally suspicious of the Narragansett. The colonial English response to Oldham's death, the last in a series of escalating incidents, has traditionally been viewed as the beginning of the Pequot War. SO in he end It was Oldham's death that caused the Pequot War.</span>
