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for nine years 1754-1763 Britain paid a large amount of money to keep the colonies safe and happy by fighting a war .
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a new tax that required a stamp for all printed including newspapers , legal documents and more .
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The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications,
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They placed new taxes and took away some freedoms from the colonists including the following: New taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea.
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Parliament passed the Declaratory Acts, asserting that the British government had free and total legislative power over the colonies
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he British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain
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American colonists and a lone British soldier, but quickly escalated to a chaotic, bloody slaughter. The conflict energized anti-British sentiment
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The British government, led by Prime Minister Lord North, maintained the taxes on tea, in order to underscore the supremacy of parliament.
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the Tea Act imposed no new taxes on the American colonies. The tax on tea had existed since the passing
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Tea Party took place because the colonists did not want to have to pay taxes on the British tea.
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the British Parliament in 1774, relating to Britain's colonies in North America the Boston Tea Party, the Coercive Acts sought to punish Massachusetts as a warning to other colonies.
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The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States
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the second continental congress delegates signed the declaration of independence though the fighting and the war already began
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their red coats, and minutemen the colonists' militi exchanged gunfire at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts.
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important documents in the history of the United States. It was an official act taken by all 13 American colonies in declaring independence from British rule
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