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England shut down Boston Harbor, stopped allowing elections and expanded the Quartering Act
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Banned all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.
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Taxes on almost all printed material for everyone.
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Required colonists to provide food and shelter to British soldiers
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Declared England's authority to make laws for the coloinies
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Taxes on items like tea, paper, and glass.
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Killing of 5 colonists by British soliders
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Railed colonial opposition against British policy and established a political union among the 13 colonies.
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Lowered the tax on British Tea, making it cheaper than the non- British tea colonist smuggled
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Colonist, disguised as Indians, dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor
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The first shots were fired just after dawn in Lexington.
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Written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies
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Regarded the thirteen colonies independent states.
