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The British had very high taxes in their country
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It is a taxable corporation that the Great Britain entered into force for the American colonies.It is a law that says that stamp
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Declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act.
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A series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies in 1767.New taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea.Established an American Customs Board in Boston to collect taxes.Set up new courts in America to prosecute smugglers(without using a local jury).Gave British officials the right to search colonists' houses and businesses.
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The Boston Non-Importation Agreement was a formal collective decision made by Boston based merchants and traders not to import or export items to Britain.
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The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot that occurred on March 5, 1770, on King Street in Boston. It began as a street brawl between American colonists and a lone British soldier, but quickly escalated to a chaotic, bloody slaughter.
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Burning of the Gaspee, in U.S. colonial history, act of open civil defiance of British authority when Rhode Islanders boarded and sank the revenue cutter Gaspee in Narragansett Bay.
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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 struggling company survive.
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The passing of the Tea Act imposed no new taxes on the American colonies.
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The British Parliament passed a series of laws collectively known as the Intolerable Acts, with the intent to suppress unrest in colonial Boston by closing the port and placing it under martial law. In response, colonial protestors led by a group called the Sons of Liberty issued a call for a boycott.
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When the American Revolution began, there was no regular army. ... It was also known as the American War of Independence. The Revolutionary War began with the confrontation between British troops and local militia at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts.
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By issuing the Declaration of Independence, adopted by the Continental Congress, the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain. The Declaration summarized the colonists' motivations for seeking independence.
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The Battle of Princeton was a battle of the American Revolutionary War, fought near Princeton, New Jersey and ending in a small victory for the Colonials. General Lord Cornwallis had left 1,400 British troops under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Mawhood in Princeton.
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The Continental Congress was a series of legislative bodies which met in the British American colonies and the newly-declared United States just before, during, and after the American Revolution.
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During the second year of the American Revolution. It included two crucial battles, fought eighteen days apart, and was a decisive victory for the Continental Army and a crucial turning point in the Revolutionary War.
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There were two more war in 1778 which is Battle of Thomas Creek and Battle of Barren Hill.
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Also known as the Battle of Yorktown, the surrender at Yorktown, or the German Battle, ending on October 19, 1781, at Yorktown, Virginia, was a decisive victory by a combined.
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The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3, 1783, officially ended the American Revolutionary War.
