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only english ships used for trade in British empire
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no colony west of appalachian mountains
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tax on all sugar imported
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required use of stamps on all legal documents
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Held in New York City
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colonists dressed as Mohawk Indians dumped almost 350 chests of Brithish tea into the Boston Harbor as a gesture of tax protest.
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in response to the Intolerable Acts Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, and New York proposed that a colonial congress be held.
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they closed the harbor and placed the government of Boston under direct British control.
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the first battles of the american Revolution.
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assumed the powers of a central government.
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The first necessary steps to establish the now nation.
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soon after Richard henry Lee proposed the Resolution of Independence, Thomas Jefferson a tall redheaded Virginia planter, ence.