Medal - American Revolution Bicentennial Massachusetts

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Commemoration and seal.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
Commemorating
* the *
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
BICENTENNIAL
in
MASSACHUSETTS
1776 1976
SIGILLUM COLONIAE MASSACHUSETTENSIS 1775
ENSE PETIT PLAGIDAM SUB LIBERTATE QUIETEM
MAGNA
CHARTA

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The American Revolution was a political upheaval that took place between 1765 and 1783 during which colonists in the Thirteen American Colonies rejected the British monarchy and aristocracy, overthrew the authority of Great Britain, and founded the United States of America.

Starting in 1765, members of American colonial society rejected the authority of the British Parliament to tax them without colonial representatives in the government. During the following decade, protests by colonists—known as Patriots—continued to escalate, as in the Boston Tea Party in 1773 during which patriots destroyed a consignment of taxed tea from the Parliament-controlled and favored East India Company.[1] The British responded by imposing punitive laws—the Coercive Acts—on Massachusetts in 1774, following which Patriots in the other colonies rallied behind Massachusetts. In late 1774 the Patriots set up their own alternative government to better coordinate their resistance efforts against Great Britain, while other colonists, known as Loyalists, preferred to remain aligned to the British Crown.
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