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Debt is at 75 million in Great Britain.
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Debt in Great Britain rises from 75 million to 133 million.
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Americans were forced to house and feed British soldiers in their barns and such.
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Passed as a means to regulate trade with the British west Indies.
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Parliament says that there will be no new paper money in America.
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Anything printed on paper has to have a revenue stamp.
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Colonists start to be more vocal about problems with taxation without representation. Leading them to write the Declaration of Rights and Grievances.
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British goods start being boycotted, daughters of liberty hold spinning bees in order to spin new fabric to make clothes instead of buying clothing from Great Britain.
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States that parliament makes and enforces the rules. Any laws or systems of justice made by the colonists are null and void.
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Tax on consumer items such as paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea.
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An attempt to stop smuggling in the colonies mainly the Boston Harbor.
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One in Boston, Philadelphia, and Charleston.
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British soldiers and colonists get into argument, British soldiers shoot into the crowd and kill 5 people.
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The India tea company of Great Britain no longer has to pay export fees.
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Sons of liberty throw tea into the Boston Harbor as an act of rebellion.
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The colonists come together to make a plan of rebellion to the intolerable acts, or the coercive acts as they were called in Britain.
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Boston Harbor is shut down until the tea that was thrown into the harbor is paid for.
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Declares independence from Great Britain.
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Disband NY assembly until they paid for Garrison's supplies.