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Help with tax and balance tax problems
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tax that imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax
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Laws passed by the Parliament of Great Britian
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People refused to pay taxes on glass, lead, paper, and tea. People refused to follow the new laws. A small group of colonists in Boston were taking out their frustration with the troops by taunting them and the troops open fire and killed them.
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Officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor.
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British troops were sent to Concord to capture John Hancock and Samuel Adams,
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was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress , which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire
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First written constitution or plan of government of the United States of America and specified how the national government was to operate.
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Formally ended the American Revolutionary War between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United States of America, which had rebelled against British rule.
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the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and ratified by conventions in each U.S. state in the name of "The People".
