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only English ships could bring goods into England and the North American colonies could only export its goods to England
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Because of the French-Indian War England owed huge debt. England goes from salutary neglect to mercantilism
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required colonists to pay for stamps and paper goods
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colonists were required to house British soldiers
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many acts that taxed on goods in the colonies (stamp act)
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began as a fight between American colonists and a British soldier and soon become a bloody massacre
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American colonists protested taxation without representation by dumping 342 chests of tea in the Boston harbor
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5 laws that the British made to get power back from the AMerican colonists after the Boston Tea Party
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meeting of delegates to declare independence from Britain after the Revolutionary War
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battles that began the Revolutionary War because British troops marched to Concord to take away weapons to prevent a rebellion
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a petition where the colonists said they would be loyal to the king and exercise the rights as citizens of Britain to avoid going to war with Britain
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pamphlet written by Thomas Paine about independence from Britain
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adopted by the Second Continental Congress, giving rights to citizens and declaring independence
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the first constitution of the 13 original colonies
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a revolt against the state governments attempt to tax people
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meeting called to revise Articles of Confederation but instead wrote the Declaration of Independence
