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populist uprising against controversial debt collection and tax policies. -
The French-Indian War was fought mainly over territory in the New World. -
Acts of Parliament intended to promote the self-sufficiency of the British Empire. -
Requiring colonial authorities to provide food, drink, quarters, fuel, and transportation to British forces. -
Imposed a direct tax on the colonists. -
A series of measures taxed goods imported to the American colonies. -
A group of nine British soldiers killed three people of a crowd of three or four hundred. -
a group of 60 American colonists threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to agitate against both a tax on tea. -
punitive laws passed by the British Parliament after the Boston Tea Party. -
a final attempt to avoid war between Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies in America. -
"The shot heard around the world" Kicked off the American Revolution War. -
a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America. -
independence from England, and the creation of a democratic republic. -
an official act was taken by all 13 American colonies in declaring independence from British rule. -
established the functions of the national government of the United States. -
The point of the event was decide how America was going to be governed.