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The British soldiers had faught agianst the French soldiers and the Native American.The Native American Had got in the battle because they wanted war with the British because they were afriad the british would take over thier land.
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Colonial merchants had been required to pay a taxs of six pence every gallon because of the corruptionthey mainley envaded the taxes and hoping that the taxes would be cheaper by than.
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The Stamp Act was given by the British on March 22, 1765. The new tax was on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax to every piece of printed paper they used.
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The government spent immense sums of money on troops and equipment in an attempt to subjugate Massachusetts. British merchants had lost huge sums of money on looted, spoiled, and destroyed goods shipped to the colonies.
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Dr. Joseph Warren learned of the British plans and sent Paul Revere to alert John Hancock and Samuel Adams. Paul Revere promised to warn them when the British soldiers started to march
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On May 10, 1775, the members of the Second Continental Congress met at the State House in Philadelphia. There were several new delegates including
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Published anonymously by Thomas Paine in January of 1776, Common Sense was an instant best-seller, both in the colonies and in Europe. It went through several editions in Philadelphia, and was republished in all parts of United America. Because of it, Paine became internationally famo
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When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
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Taxes on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea were applied with the design of raising £40,000 a year for the administration of the colonies. The result was the resurrection of colonial hostilities created by the Stamp Act.
