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Meeting of representatives sent by legislatures of seven of the thirteen British colonies.
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Merchants required to pay taxes on sugar and molasses. Typically six pence per gallon of molasses.
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A minimum of 2 acts of British parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations and housing.
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The British Parliament required colonists to pay taxes on every piece of printed paper that they used.
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repealed the Stamp Act and lessened the Sugar Act
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A series of measures that were introduced into the British parliament b Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townsend in 1767 and imposed taxes on things like, glass, lead, paper, and paint
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Street fight between patriots who threw snowballs, sticks, and stones.
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A group of colonists protest 13 years of British oppression by throwing tea into the Boston harbor
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was made to bail out the floundering East India company, a key actor in the British economy
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a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies who met from September 5 to October 26 of 1774, to organize colonial resistance
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Convention of delegates of the 13 colonies that started the meeting in the spring of 1775 in Philidelphia
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designed to punish the inhabitants of Boston, Massachusetts for the incident that would become known as the Boston Tea Party
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made to institute a permanent administration in Canada replacing the temporary government created at the time of the proclamation of 1763. It gave the French Canadians complete religious freedom and restored the French form of civil law
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A political protest in Edenton, NC, in response to the tea act
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Silversmith Paul Revere left his home at midnight on his horse to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams that "the British are coming, the British are coming"
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The shot heard around the world was the first gunshot of the revolutionary world, which was , in fact, heard around the world?
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it challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy.
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A document that says that the United States of America is Independent and all men are treated "equally"
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an agreement of the original 13 states
