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England fought the French and Indians over territiory. -
Ended the French Indian War -
The Sons of Liberty was a loosely organized, clandestine, sometimes violent, political organization active in the Thirteen American Colonies -
it was a tax put on stamps . -
tax put on glass, lead, paint, -
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 -
American colonists made at England for putting a tax on tea. They threw the tea into Boston Harbor. -
The Coercive Acts of 1774, known as the Intolerable Acts in the American colonies, were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
meet to talk about England and their taxes -
The battles were fought in Battles of Lexington fort want in -
The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by Congress on July 5, 1775 -
By issuing the Declaration of Independence, adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain. The Declaration summarized the colonists' motivations for seeking independence -
Writing in clear and persuasive prose, Paine collected various moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government. It was published anonymously on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution and became an immediate sensation. -
The Articles of Confederation were adopted by the Continental Congress on November 15, 1777. -
colonists beat Cornwallis. last major battle