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War from 1756 to 1763 between France and Great Britain for supremacy in North Carolina.
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British statement that colonists could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.
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Colonial merchants were required to pay a tax of 6 pence per gallon for foreign molasses.
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British law placing a tax on printed colonial matter (paper products).
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British 1760s law requiring colonists to supply the basic needs of soldiers- 3rd Amendment protects Americans from this.
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Laws passed by the British government on the American colonies. New taxes on imports of paper, paint, glass, lead, and tea were made.
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Violent confrontation between British troops and colonists. British soldiers killed several people while being harassed by a mod in Boston.
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Lowering the tea taxes that were paid to the British government, this allowed tea to be shipped directly to the colonies.
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Led by Samuel Adams, colonists dressed up as Indians and threw tea over the Boston Harbor.
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British laws passed to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party. One of these laws closed the port of Boston until the colonists paid for the tea that was destroyed.
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Delegates from the colonies met in reaction to the Coercive Acts.
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Someone fired a shot when the first fights of the Revolutionary War begun. Ralph Waldo Emerson described it as "the shot heard round the world" because he knew that the Revolutionary War and USA would always be important to many people.
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They talked about raising armies, appointing diplomats, and they wrote treaties as the Declaration of Necessity of Taking Up Arms and the Olive Branch Petition. Seeking reconciliation with Great Britain or declaring independence was a major decision that would be made in the future.
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Written by Thomas Paine, this document called for independence from Great Britain.
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Written by Thomas Jefferson, this pronouncement declared freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain.