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A British-declared boundary in North America, established by King George III, that prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling on lands west of the Appalachian Mountains.
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The Sugar Act was a British-declared boundary in North America, established by King George III, that prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling on lands west of the Appalachian Mountains.
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The Stamp Act was a British law passed in 1765 that imposed a tax on most printed materials in the American colonies, including legal documents, newspapers, playing cards, and pamphlets. This was the first time Britain directly taxed the colonists to raise revenue, rather than to regulate trade.
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A series of British laws passed in 1767 that imposed taxes on goods imported into the American colonies
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A series of British laws passed in 1767 that imposed taxes on goods imported into the American colonies
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A law that allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the American colonies, bypassing colonial merchants and effectively creating a monopoly.
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A meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen American colonies.
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The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
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A governing body formed by the thirteen American colonies during the Revolutionary War.
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written by Thomas Paine
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A document declaring that the thirteen American colonies regarded themselves as 13 independent sovereign states, no longer under British rule