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The British government wanted to stop the conflict between Native Americans and colonists so they created the Proclamation of 1763. Which banned all settlement west of the Appalachian mountains. Colonist reacted in a angry manner and violated the proclamation line and moved west anyway.
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The Sugar Act held the tax on foreign-made molasses in hopes colonists would stop paying high tax.The colonist disagreed with the idea of them paying taxes and governed.
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The Stamp Act was an act that required the colonist to buy stamp paper for all legal documents. The colonists argued that, as British subjects, Parliament could not impose taxes upon them without their consent.
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Parliament voted to repeal the Stamp Act to make its power clear, they issued the Declaratory Act. The Declaratory Acts, asserted the British government had free and total power over the colonies.
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The Boston Massacre is when the British soldiers attacked defenseless American colonists. The colonist and poorly paid soldiers were in competition for jobs, which started the fight.
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The Boston Tea Party is when the Indians dumped tea in the Boston Harbor. The colonists was all for dumping the tea in the Boston Harbor.
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The Intolerable Acts was an responses to the Boston Tea Party and passed by the British Parliament in 1774. The colonist reacted quickly by moving assembled the first continental congress.
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. There was tensions between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities.
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The Battle of Bunker was a moral victory for Americans. The colonial led Putnam occupy hill. Major-General William Howe against General Artemas Ward and General Israel Putnam.
