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It was a new tax imposed on all american colonists that required them to pay tax on ship papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, and even playing cards.
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A local vessel out of newport beached william duddington's gaspee ship for tresspassing in the naragansett bay.
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They were shadow governments that started to plan independence from the british and the governments started after the boston massacre.
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were introduced in 1774 by the new government of Lord North who acted with the direct encouragement of king George III. they were a major factor contributing to the outbreak of the American Revolution. The british thought these acts would stop the colonial resistance but the colonists thought these were in violation iof there rights
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Reprensentatives from each colony except georgia met in philadelphia. The represenatatives came to discuss their responce to the british intolerable acts. The purpose of the meeting was not to seek independence from britian.
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Paul Revere was sent for by Dr. Joseph Warren and instructed to ride to lexington, massachusetts, to warn Samuel Adams and John hancock that british troops were marching to arrest them. he also warned other colonial citizens that "the british are coming"
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It was the battle where the first shots were fired to start the revolution. The british general Thomas Gage sent 700 soldiers to destroy the colonists gun and ammunition
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Following the Battle of Lexington and Concord, the patriots had the British blocked off in Boston. It was one of the biggest victories for the americans.
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Established the militia as the continental army to represent the thirteen states. They elected george washington as commander and chief of the continental army.
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took place during the siege of boston early in the revolutionary war. the leaders of the colonial forces learned that british generals were planning on sending troops to the unocuppied hills surrounding boston. after a while there were a great amount of british casualties
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This was a letter sent to king george III to try to come up with a agreement on independence with britian.
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It was the responce king george sent to the americans to reduce the rebellion and revolution from the americans
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On December 16, 1773, after 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. The incident remains an iconic event of American history, and other political protests often refer to it.
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it was published during the american revelution. It had the largest sale and circulation of any book in american history. It presented the american colonists with an argument for freedom from british rule at a time when the question of independence was still undecided.
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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
