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Mercantilism is the theory that a country should have a positive balance of trade by using economic policys aimed towards gaining money.
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The unoffical policy of England of not enforcing laws passed by parliament in America. Therefore inducing self governance in the colonists.
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A war between two superpowers England , and France. over the ohio river valley which eventually extended to europe. In the End most of the french colonys in america east of the mississipi were handed over to the British.
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Proclamation by King George III of England prohibiting all colonists to settle west of the Appalachan mountain range.
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A tax on all Printed papers
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Acts of British parliament forcing Amercian colonist to house British soldiers.
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a meeting to discuss the new stamp act
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Act of Parliament which repealed the stamp act of 1765 , and declared that the authority of parliament was the same in America as in Britain
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The acts purposed was to raise money in the colonies to pay the salaries of governors and judges so that they would remain loyal to Great Britain
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Was a fight between British soliders and American Colonist where five colonists were killed.
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granted the British East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in America
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was a protest were the american protesters destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company, in protest of the Tea Act of 1773
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meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to decide how to respond to the closing of Boston Harbor, increased taxes by the British government
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Closed the port of Boston and removed massachusetts self governance.
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The second continental congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved towards independence and adopting the United States Declaration of Independence
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the very first military engagements in the Revolutionary War.
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Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that provoked people in the thirteen colonies to declare war and fight for independence from Great Britain
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A document that expressed that the colonist regarded themselves as independent sovereign states and no longer a part of the British Empire
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British representative David Hartley and American delegation of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and John Jay sign the Treaty of Paris
