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In the first year of the war, the British suffered a series of defeats at the hands of the French and their broad network of Native American alliances.
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The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British Parliament. The issues raised by the Stamp .
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consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America.
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declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act.
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asserting that the British government had free and total legislative power over the colonies.
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a series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies
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known to the British as the Incident on King Street, was a confrontation on March 5, 1770
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The British parliament repealed the Townshend duties on all but tea.
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The act granted the company the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies without first landing it in England,
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American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.
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The Coercive Acts were a series of four acts established by the British government. The aim of the legislation was to restore order in Massachusetts and punish Bostonians for their Tea Party,
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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. It met from September 5 to October ...
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The Second Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America which united in the American Revolutionary War.
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In fact, independence was formally declared on July 2, 1776, a date that John Adams believed would be “the most memorable epocha in the history of America
