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The day the war ended after many years.
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The British required the colonists to pay a tax on almost all of the printed materials such as, newspapers, books and more.
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The colonists angrily protested the stamp act and argued that it threatened their liberty and prosperity.
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Patrick Henry drafted a document that said only the colonial government can tax the colonies. On the following day, the Virginias House of Burgesses accepted most of Henry's ideas.
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Stamp act congress that was held in new York city. The members in congress encouraged a consumer boycott against all British imported goods. They did boycott all of the British goods and that threatened all of the merchants and manufactures in Britain
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After parliament passed new taxes, such as, the Townshend Act, the colonist started to protest and boycott again. The biggest riot took place in Boston because that's where the British soldiers were. One evening, a group of colonists threw snowballs and rocks, which made the soldiers nervous and they shot 5 times and that resulted in killing some colonists. The patriots called this the Boston Massacre.
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The colonists protested that the British were still trying to trick them to pay the tax they protested for. One evening, the Boston patriots dressed up as Indians. They boarded three British ships with tea and they dumped all of the tea into the harbor.
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Britain punished the people of Boston by passing the Coercive acts which closed the port to trade until all of the damaged tea was payed for.
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Delegates from every colony, except Georgia, met in Philadelphia for the first continental congress. Patrick Henry said his famous quote give me liberty or give me death. They all tried to pressure parliament to withdraw the Coercive acts all of the delegates announced a boycott of all British imports.
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The patriot, John Adams, decided that he already lived in the new country they called America. John believed that Americans could unite to defeat the British.
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War started at Lexington and concord. The patriots were fighting the British with their militia. The minute man lined the road and went behind the British and let off shots that left more than 200 British soldiers dead.
