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This document was sent to the Colonists’ by the King and declared colonists were not allowed to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains. Colonists petitioned the parliament, which resulted in the boundary line being moved back
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A law passed by the British Parliament in 1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market.The colonists were angry about the act. Colonists took action against the British in opposition to the Sugar Act. They boycotted English products, and this earned the attention of Great Britain by hurting them financially.
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The Quartering Act of 1765 was an act passed by British Parliament, which forced people in the US colonies to house and feed British soldiers during times of peace if there was no room in barracks. The colonists reacted negatively overall to the act.
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An act of the British Parliament for raising revenue in the American Colonies by requiring the use of stamps and stamped paper for official documents, commercial writings, and various articles. The colonists vocalized their differences in assemblies, newspapers and the Stamp Act Congress.
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After months of protests, and an appeal by Benjamin Franklin before the British House of Commons, Parliament voted to repeal the Stamp Act in March 1766. The colonists were in control of the British government.
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It is acts of the British Parliament in 1767, especially the act that placed duties on tea, paper lead, paint, etc., importer into the American colonies. The colonists boycott against British luxury items. They dumped tea in the Boston Harbor.
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A riot in Boston arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troop quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed several people. The colonists were outraged that vicious attack on unarmed civilians.
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An act of the British Parliament that created a monopoly unfair to American tea merchants: the chief cause of the Boston Tea Party. The colonists boarded East India Company ships and dumped their loads of tea overboard.
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A series of laws passed by the British in 1774 in an attempt to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. The colonists boycotted and conveyed the First Continental Congress.
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12 of 13 colonies (Georgia did not attend) send delegates in response to the Intolerable Acts. They sent petition to England calling for repeal of repressive legislation and told colonies to prepare their militias. The colonists acted like a united government for the first time.
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The first battle of the Revolutionary War, fought in Massachusetts on April 19, 1775. The colonists were proud of the courage shown by the minutemen.
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The first important battle of the American War of Independence which was fought at Breed’s Hill; the British defeated the colonial forced. The colonists gathered weapons, forming new militias and replacing royal governments with colonial ones.
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It was a convention of delegated from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the spring of 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Olive Branch Petition was a final attempt by the colonists to avoid going to war with Britain during the American Revolution.
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Common Sense was a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. The pamphlet listed grievances against the King. The colonists moved towards declaring independence from England.
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America is now independent and extends from the Atlantic to the Mississippi River. Britain evacuates fort from the Northwest. America will ask states to compensate loyalists.
