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King George III following Great Britain 's acquisition of french territory in North America
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King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.
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Taxed placed on all paper goods by the British to help pay for the french and Indian War ; later repealed
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Two acts of British parliament in the local governments of the american colonies to provide the British soldiers
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Stated parliament had the right to tax the colonists at any time
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Passed by the parliament in 1767,placed taxes on imported materials such as glass, lead, paper, and tea
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When British soldiers opened fire on a group of american colonists killing five men
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Known as the incident on King Street by the british army soldiers shot and killed people while under attacked by a mob
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The Committees of Correspondence rallied colonial opposition against British policy and established a political union among the Thirteen Colonies. Letter from Samuel Adams to James Warren, 4 November 1772. Massachusetts Historical Society.
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The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London
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They destroyed and entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company
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The Coercive Acts (known in America as the Intolerable Acts) were passed by the British Parliament in 1774 as punishment for the destruction wrought during the Boston Tea Party, which was a reaction to the British tea tax of 1773.
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This phrase comes from the opening stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "concord Hymn and is referred to the first shot in the American Revolutionary war
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Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.
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Document that declaration the independence of the united from Great Britain ; written by Thomas Jefferson
