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George Grenville rose in Parliament to offer the fifty-five resolutions of his Stamp Bill. A motion was offered to first read petitions from the Virginia colony and others was denied
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A group of youth and dockworkers exploded into violence and the soldiers started to fire. Attucks and four laborers were killed. The sons of libertiy called it the Boston Massacre.
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It also gives the near bankrupt British East India Company a virtual tea monopoly by allowing it to sell directly to colonial agents, bypassing any middlemen, thus underselling American merchants
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A group of man disgusieed as native americans boared three tea ships docked in boston in boston habor. they threw 342 chest of tea over board.
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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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From all the colonis execpt Geogia met in Philadelphia at the meeting called the first continental congress delegrates voted to ban all trade with britain until intolerable act
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Times had taken a sharp turn for the worse. Lexington and Concord had changed everything. When the Redcoats fired into the Boston crowd in 1775, the benefit of the doubt was granted. Now the professional imperial army was attempting to arrest patriot leaders, and minutemen had been killed in their defense.
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Common Sense challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. The plain language that Paine used spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain.
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AN ACT for the better securing the dependency of his Majesty's dominions in America upon the crown and parliament of Great Britain
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congress adopted the document that proclaimed independence
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this is the website i got all the information from http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/revwartimeline.htm
