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that taxed goods imported to the American colonies -
something that have to get stamped on paper -
requring colonial authorities to provide food, drink, quarters, fuel, and transportation to British forces stationed -
Between france and great britain -
some laws that was passed by the parliament -
Boston townspeople attacked and killed five British soldiers. -
was a political protest that occurred on December 16, -
series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party -
a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared. -
The Second Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America that united in the American Revolutionary War. -
"The shot heard round the world" is a phrase that refers to the opening shot of the battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, -
good sense and sound judgment in practical matters. -
the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain. -
established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain. -
uprising in western Massachusetts -
The convention took place in the old Pennsylvania State House (now known as Independence Hall) in Philadelphia. ... It was contemporarily known as the Federal Convention, the Philadelphia Convention, or the Grand Convention at Philadelphia. Nor did most of the delegates arrive intending to draft a new constitution.