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This event happened because each wanted more power. Also each wanted more land for themselves.
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The stamp act makes people pay tax for using and buying printed pieces of paper, newspapers, legal documents.
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This act imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, and tea imported from the colonies
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During this time the government was trying to increase the colonies and raise the taxes at the same time. So soldiers were ordered to stop the people from rising.
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This happened because the colonist did not want to pay taxes on the British tea, so they rebelled and this was on the newspaper.
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This was passed to save the East Indian company by going broke and lowering the taxes.
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This was a convention called together of all 13 colonies. The accomplishment was to boycott British goods.
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The intolerable act was made to punish the colonist for what happened at the boston tea party. This was a Harsh law.
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The Americans fired the first shot on this day. Also the thirteen colonies and the British authorities had been arguing for the longest time.
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Thomas Paine was a publisher and wrote this sort of story Called ''common sense'' and it stated about American independence.
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