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Tried to regulate colonists trading and what was imported but wasn’t religiously enforced.
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The British fought a large and crippling war against the French and Indians and expected the colonists to pay for the war debt.
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Taxed items such as newspapers and pamphlets colonists found this to be a attack against there rights.
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Colonists protesting threw rocks and ice at British soldiers who opened fire in defense and killed 5 colonists.
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Britain puts a tax on all tea to try and repair its debt from the war which outrages the colonists paying for it.
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A handful of colonists riled together and threw a whole ships worth of tea into the Boston harbor in protest of the tax on tea.
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12 state representatives gathered in Philadelphia to discuss moves against the British for what happened in Massachusetts.
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Colonist leaders came together and formed a continental army with George Washington in command.
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The first battle of the revolutionary war where the first shots of the war took place between the British and colonists.
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American leaders signed the declaration claiming there break from Great Britain and its government.
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A large win for the colonists and the turning point of the war and convinced the French to join the side of the colonists.
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A hard blow to the colonists where the cold winter and starvation killed hundreds of colonist soldiers but George Washington held his army together.
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The final battle that crumbled the British war effort and forced the British to end the war two years later.
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This constitution fixed all the problems we had with Great Britain and created laws to protect the people from the government.