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Written materials were taxed
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The key events that led up to the American Revolution Let's put ourselves in Washington's shoes: https://www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/revolutionary-choices-game/ Check out this quick summary by John Green:
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More taxes!
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British soldiers were alarmed and fired their guns into the crowd. Several people were killed.
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The colonists didn't want to pay for taxes on tea so they disguised themselves as indigenous people and threw the tea into the sea -
The people were tired of not having a voice in the government so they decided to come together in the First Continental Congress