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tax on paper. mostly taxed newspapers stamps by the british government. later repealed
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shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution.
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act that was issued by Britain to help pay for war costs. it was meant to save that British east tea company that was struggling
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after the french and Indian war the colonies couldn't move pass the Appalachian mountains and Britain took all of Frances territory
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the act Britain put in place that made the colonies house the troops coming over from great Britain
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book by thomas paine that persuaded the colonies that what the british was doing was wrong and that it was common sense to rebel
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Townshend Acts imposed taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies.
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the shooting of 5 people in boston. the red coats were provoked into shoot civilians that were protesting
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a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. sons of liberty dressed as Indians and went aboard ships and dumped over 300 crates of tea in the Boston harbor
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series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party so punish the colonists for there defiance
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the first shot between the colonists and the British at lexington
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the act of Britain lessening the sugar act and repealing the stamp act
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adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia that declared the colonies independance