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for nine years from 1754-1763 britain paid a large amount of money to keep colonies safe and happy by fighting a war with france over control of the land in the ohio river valley
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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.
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was the first gathering of representatives from several American colonies to devise a unified protest against British taxation.
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Parliament then agreed to repeal the Stamp Act on the condition that the Declaratory Act
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, series of four acts passed by the British Parliament in an attempt to assert what it considered to be its historic right to exert authority over the colonies through suspension of a recalcitrant representative assembly
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Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry.
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products shipped from other countries such as glass ,tea, lead ,paint
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allowing only the british east india company to sell tea in the colonies
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the Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston
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fighting a Native American uprising and was dependent on the British for military supplies
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The British Parliament in 1774. Four of the acts were issued in direct response to the
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The Revolutionary War began with the confrontation between British troops and local militia at Lexington and Concord Massachusetts
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The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that started meeting
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asserting that the British government had free and total legislative power over the colonies
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this document officially stated that the 13 colonies were cutting ties with the great britain
