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There was war debt to be paid off. It became a expensive drain.
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Was a tax on all paper goods such as stamps cards and paper
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A group of set representatives met in new your city to discuss rights as British subjects. declaring only legislators had power to tax them.
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From all the pressure from the colonies, Britain ultimately decided to repeal the stamp act.
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Parliament passed the declaratory act stating that it had all power to make laws that were strong enough to keep he people in the colonies under great britans control.
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This act allowed taxes on British imports and goods shiped from other countries.
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Tensions were high British solders were guarding Boston customs house where taxes were collected, an angry mob began throwing rocks and snowballs shots were fired killing 5 colonists.
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Britain repealed the act but the tax on tea remained.
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Parliament passed the tea act allowing only the British east India company to sell tea in the colonies.
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The sons of liberty were desqised and got on the ships that had tea and dumped all the tea over board.
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This is know as the intolerable act. Boston harbor would be closed until the destroyed tea was paid for.
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The colonies except for Georgia met in Philadelphia to talk about there unfair. independence is in the air.
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The American Revolutionary War, also known as the American War of Independence.
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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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The purpose of the Declaration of Independence was to explain to the whole world why the thirteen British colonies were seeking to start their own country.
