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The act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp -
which nine British soldiers shot several of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles. -
The Second Continental Congress assumed the normal functions of a government, appointing ambassadors, issuing paper currency, raising the Continental Army through conscription. And would also appointing generals to lead wars -
the British shut down Boston Harbor until all of the 340 chests of British East India Company tea were paid for1 -
a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
The purpose of the meeting was to discuss a unified response to the coercive acts. -
It was the opening battle of the American revolutionary war. although no one know who shot first -
Casualties numbered more than 1,000 British and about 450 American soldiers -
emphasized their loyalty to the British crown and they also emphasized their rights as British citizens -
Paine collected various moral and political arguments to encourage common people to fight for the egalitarian government -
The document was designed to prove to the world especially France that the colonists were right to defy King George III's rule.
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a loose confederation of sovereign states and a weak central government -
known as the Battle of Yorktown, the surrender at Yorktown -
promised the creation of a bicameral legislature composed of the House of Representatives and the Senate -
a join house and senate conference committee settled remaining disagreements