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Poor Richard's Almanac is published for the first of its twenty-six annual editions by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia. It would sell as many as 10,000 copies per year.
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The Sugar Act taxed items sold in the British Colonies
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The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed.
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A series of acts that placed taxes on goods purchased by the British colonists. Britain was attempting to force taxes on the colonists as a way of helping pay for the cost incurred by the British
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Colonists revolted against the Tea Tax by dumping containers of Tea into the Boston Harbor
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The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States
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Paul Revere warned of the British coming to confiscate guns. The battles of Lexington and Concord set the stage for the coming revolution.
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Continental Congress met and adopted the Declaration of Independence, proclaiming us free from England
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This ended the Revolutionary War and determined boundaries between British controlled land and the United States
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An armed uprising in Western Massachusetts in opposition to a debt crisis among the citizenry and the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes both on individuals and their trades; the fight took place mostly in and around Springfield
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Delegates met and drafted the Constitution
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George Washington was elected president and inaugurated on April 30, 1789