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Stated in the text. "it is expedient that new provisions and regulations should be established for improving the revenue of this Kingdom ... and ... it is just and necessary that a revenue should be raised ... for defraying the expenses of defending, protecting, and securing the same."
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A direct act to the British Parliament. Everything they bought was extra money because there were stamps on it. -
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It was a series of laws passed. The acts were named after Charles Townshend. -
There was a bunch of Taxation acts that people did not like, So it caused a massacre.
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It was a bunch of acts that the colonist did not like.
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It was an act to reduce massive surplus of tea held by poor British East India Company.
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It was the movement throughout British America againt the tea act. People were throwing tea over off the British boats.
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It was a convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies.
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It was the first military engagment of American Revolution.
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A convention of delegates from the thirteen colonies.
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British won but suffered heavy losses. 800 wounded and 226 killed.
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Continental congress in an attempt to avoid a full-blown war with Great Britain. -
This was written by "Englishman" it became an instant success. It presented an argument for freedom from British.
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Announced the thirteen American colonies and announced them as an indepent state.
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British drove Washington to Long Island. Then Washington was forced to retreat to New Jersey.
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British and Continental army was forced to retreat across New Jersey.
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British forced Americans to withdraw capital of Philadelphia.
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It was a 6 month encampment of the continental army. It was a hungry, cold, ragged, and cramped December. -
The americans soliders were surronding yorktowns. Which put the British under siege.
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It was a signed document ending the American Revolutionary war between Great Britain and gave them there land.