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The Navigation Acts forced the colonists to sell their raw materials even if they could get a better price elsewhere.
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A British law made a tax on molasses imported from non-British colonies into the North American colonies.
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When the militia had built a fort to protect themselves from the french.
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This date is the first official year of fighting in the seven-year war the french and the native Americans have an advantage for now.
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the 1763 Treaty of Paris France lost land claims in North America while Britain gained Canda and most French lands east of the Mississippi.
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This new tax lowered the text on molasses imported by the colonies, The idea was that lower taxes would lower the price, encourage more people to buy, and encourage the colonists to stop smuggling It also allowed the officer to seize accused smugglers' goods without going to court
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Parliament passed the Stamp Act, and it required the colonist to pay a small tax on all printed materials and it reperented that tax by a stamp on the materials.
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The Parlament has the right to tax and makes decisions for British colonies “in all cases”. The Declaratory Law says that England can make laws and decisions for the American colonies without their say in it.
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The Townshend Act was an external tax. That is taxed on imported goods coming into the colonies of America, the tax was on the imported goods, the goods were: glass, lead, paper, tea, and paint.
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A fight occurred between the Bostonians and the British soldiers. The mod of Bostonians was fired on because a British soldier had fallen and had accidentally shot his gun, when the smoke cleared 5 lay dead and 3 were in juried.
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Rever and Daws ride to Lexington, a town east of Concord, spreading the news “The British are coming!”.
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General Thomas Gage had an order from parliament to seize weapons and arrest leaders of Massachusetts militia he had ordered Lieutenant Colonial Francis Smith to take 700 troops to Concord and seize and destroy all the artillery and ammunition they could find.
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The British military ran Bosten so sometimes they kicked Bostonians out of their homes, soldiers were living next door.
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A government for Canada was created, and extended its territory all the way to the south to the Ohio River, It left the colonists trapped where they were.
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It was known as the unreliable Acts intolerable means painful and unbearable the one cursive act that was applied to all of the colonies was the Administration of Justice Act
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55 delegates gathered together to create a political body. These delegates named this political body the Continental Congress, georgia didn't show because of a timing issue.
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70 minutes of men were waiting for the 700 English redcoats, an unknown shot was fired, and both sides engaged a contingency of 120 redcoats matched onto Concord.
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Some of these people had met during the colonial Congress's first session these people had created the declaration of independence their main goal in this meeting was to create a more fair and representative government than the British Parliament.
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Ethan Allen of Vermont, with the Green Mountain Boys, was also planning to attack Ticonderoga. After agreeing to work together, they surrendered fort Ticonderoga.
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The militia set up on Bunker Hill and Breed’s Hill, which were across the harbor from Boston Red costs assembled at the food of Breeds Hill, with bayonets, and charged the hill.
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The olive branch assured King Geroge lll that the colonies wanted peace and asked to protect their rights, but the king rejected the petition and prepared for war.
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King Geroge had hired more than 30,000 German merchants called Hessians to fight alongside British troops against the American colonies.
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George Washington thought that his troops were ready to fight and the cannons made it from northern New York in the winter snow.
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56 delegates signed the Declaration of Independence, John Handcock wrote his name so large that the king could read his name without his glasses.