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In response to French attcks on the frontier Benjamin Franklin proposed a plan for uniting the colonies. Colonies rejected the plan because it gave too much power to an assembly made up of representatives from all 13 colonies.
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Started as a strugle between France and Great Britain over land. Great Britain won and gained complete control of the eastern third of the continent.
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George III becomes king and is determined to deal firmly with the American colonies. Levied taxes on tea, sugar,glass, paper, and other products.
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Direct tax on legal documents, pamphlets, newspapers, dice, and playing cards.
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Nine colonies sent delegates to a meeting in New York called the Stamp Act Congress. First meeting organized by the colonies to protest King George's actions.
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Colonists dressed as Indians, dumped 342 chests of British tea into Boston Harbor.
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Called the Intolerable Acts, one closed Boston Harbor, another withdrew the right of the Massachusetts colony to govern itself.
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Committees organized in the colonies to keep in touch with one another and rebelion started
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General meeting of all the colonies. Delegates from all the colonies except Georgia met.
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British Redcoats clashed with colonial minutmen in Massachusetts. First battle of the Revolutionary War.
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Delegates from all 13 colonies gathered in Philadelphia and assumed the powers of a central government.
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Richard Henry Lee of Rirginia declared independence. Said "that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states."
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Legal document declaring the colonies independence from Great Britain.
