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The Stamp Act of 1765 was ratified by the British parliament under King George III. It imposed a tax on all papers and official documents in the American colonies, though not in England.
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Townshend Acts. To help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea, and other products that the US couldn't make for themselves.
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a group of nine British soldiers killed three people of a crowd of three or four hundred who were abusing them verbally and throwing various missiles.
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The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773, who opposed buying tea from a company that was owned by the British. Thus, they destroyed several cargoes of tea into the Boston Harbor. When the British found out what they did, they responded very harshly by passing the Quartering Act and the Intolerable Acts
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The Intolerable Acts were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British Government.
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the first Continental Congress in the United States met in Philadelphia to consider its reaction to the British government's restraints on trade and representative government after the Boston Tea Party.
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War officially breaks out between American Colonists and Great Britain at Lexington and Concord.
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The Second Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America that united in the American Revolutionary War.
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. The Petition emphasized their loyalty to the British crown and emphasized their rights as British citizens.
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The United States Declaration of Independence, formally The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia
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The Articles created a loose confederation of sovereign states and a weak central government, leaving most of the power with the state governments. America's first constitution originally written in 1777 but was not officially ratified (approved) until 3/1/1783. Maryland was the last state to sign off on it.
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