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War from 1756 to 1763 between France and Great Britain for supremacy
in North Carolina (caused colonial heavy taxation-led to American revolution) -
British statement that colonists could not settle west of the
Appalachian. mountains -
a law passed by the British Parliament in 1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market
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British law placing a tax on printed colonial matter: paper products
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British 1760s law requiring colonists to supply the basic needs of
British soldiers—3rd amendment protects Americans from this. -
were a series of British acts passed beginning in 1767 and relating to the British American colonies in North America
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Violent confrontation between British troops and colonist
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was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the financially struggling company survive.
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Protests by the Sons of Liberty against the British. Colonists
dressed up as Indians and threw tea overboard. Led by Samuel
Adams -
British laws in response to the Boston Tea Party (took away the
colonists’ civil rights) -
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met from September 5 to October 26, 1774
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A phrase from a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson about the Battle of Lexington and Concord
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was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the spring of 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Written by Thomas Paine, that called for independence from
Great Britain. -
is defined as the formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain