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The war ended with the Treaty of Paris. Great Britain however gained a lot of land in North America due to the war
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The Sons of liberty was a loosely organized clandestine political organization active in the Thirteen American Colonies founded to advance the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government. It played a major role in most colonies in battling the Stamp Act.
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the British Parliament passed the "Stamp Act" to help pay for British troops stationed in the colonies during the Seven Years' War. The act required the colonists to pay a tax
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The Townshend Acts was a series of events, passed by the British Parliament, that taxed imported goods to the American colonies. Early attempts, such as the Stamp Act which taxed colonists for every piece of paper they use were met with widespread protests in America.
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when British soldiers in Boston opened fire on a group of American colonists killing five men. Prior to the Boston Massacre the British had instituted a number of new taxes on the American colonies including taxes on tea, glass, paper, paint, and lead. -
Angry American colonists dumped 342 chests of tea because they were frustrated with Britain for imposing "taxation without representation.
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in U.S. colonial history, four punitive measures enacted by the British Parliament in retaliation for acts of colonial defiance, together with the Quebec Act establishing a new administration for the territory ceded to Britain after the French and Indian War
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Congress did this so the King wouldn't declare war.
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The Articles of Confederation served as the written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain.
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Joint Franco-American land and sea campaign that entrapped a major British army on a peninsula at Yorktown, Virginia, and forced its surrender. The siege virtually ended military operations in the American Revolution
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To end the war of the American Revolution, U.S. and British representatives signed this treaty. -
New Hampshire was the 9th out of the original 13 colonies to ratify the Constitution. It would only take 9 out 13 votes to ratify it for it to actually happen.
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The Bill of Rights is the first 10 amendments of the US Constitution. The last state legislature to approve the Bill of Rights was Virginia.
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