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The Stamp Act was taxation on paper and stamps.
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The treaty of Paris ended the French-Indian war. It also led to France giving up all territories in North America.
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The Proclamation act was a law forbidding settlements past a certain point in the territories.
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This cut the molasses tax in half and enforced the tax in hopes the colonies would start paying.
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Act made by the British government saying everyone in the colonies had to allow soldiers into their homes and provide food.
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Along with the Stamp act repeal the Declaratory act lessened the Sugar Acts.
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First congress of the American Colonies.
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Raised the income in the colonies to pay for the Judges and Governors in hopes the colonies would stay loyal to the crown
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The Boston Massacre was when British soldiers fired into an unarmed crown in Boston killing multiple.
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Joined the thirteen colonies as one.
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Stopped tea imports in the colonies other than the taxed tea.
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The Boston Tea Party was an act of rebellion against the British government.
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Meant as a punishment for the Boston massacre to the Massachusetts colonist
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A meeting of delegates from most of the colonies.
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A document written by the Stamp Act Congress declaring any taxes imposed on the colonies by the British government without the consent of the colonies was unconstitutional.
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Lexington and Concord was the shot heard around the world and the first battle in the revolution.
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Battle fought in Charleston Massachusetts in the early times of the American Revolution.
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The Olive Branch Petition Petition was a letter to king George the third which was the colonies last attempt to avoid war.
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Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine convincing people to separate from the king.
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the Stamp act was repealed after the colonies uproar.
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The formal statement by the colonies that declare separation from Great Britain.