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the 9 year war with Britain against France ended, Britain used the colonies as a way to collect money to pay off their war debts.
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The stamp act congress met to discuss the colonists' rights as British subjects, declaring that only their colonial legislatures had the power to tax them.
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The act that placed a tax on every paper material used was passed and everyone isn't on board
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Under the pressure from the colonies, Britain ultimately decided to repeal the stamp act.
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Taxed British imports, products shipped from other countries such as glass, tea, lead, paint, and paper.
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British soldiers were guarding the Boston customs house, where taxes were collected, when an angry mob began throwing rocks and snowballs at them. Shots rang out, killing five colonists.
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The taxing was repealed on everything but tea and the colonies are still mad.
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The tea act only allowed only the British East India Company to sell tea in the colonies.
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December 16, 1773 the sons of liberty dressed as Mohawk Indians, boarded British ships in Boston and dumped all the cargo of tea in the harbor.
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an act to make sure the colonies pay back for all the tea they dumped in the harbor.
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a meeting from representatives from each state to brew up a plan for revolution.
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