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AKA- Seven Years War
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Required Colonists to pay taxes on any piece of printed paper.
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Early 1767
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-Angry men who lost there jobs were rioting at the English
-English erupts fire on the unarmed crowd
-5 People were killed -
Samuel Adams and The Sons of Liberty boared three ships and dumped their tea.
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Taxed tea
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-The committees of correspondence assembled it
-56 total delagates
-Held in Philadelphia
-defended colonists rights (to run individual affairs) -
-Colonists VS. Redcoats
The Colonists win because the redcoats backed down -
-Held in Philadelphia
-Had debates because some wanted to join Great Britain again while other wanted independce
-Agreed to recognize colonial militia as the Continental Army
-Continental Army's leader was George Washington -
He publishes "Commen Sense"
