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Ended the French and Indian War between Great Britain and France. France gave up its territories in North America, ending foreign military threat to the British colonies.
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Forbid settlement past the Appalachian Mountain
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Lowered tax on foreign-produced molasses in attempts to discourage smuggling
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Required colonies to house British soldiers
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Required Americans to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used
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Delegates from nine of the American colonies devise a unified protest against new British taxation
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Taxes imposed on British colonists without their formal consent.
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Asserting that the British government had total power over the colonies
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Parliament voted to repeal the Stamp Act
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Imposed tax on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies
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British soldiers in Boston opened fire on a group of American colonists killing five men
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Rallied colonists against British policy and established a political union among the Thirteen Colonies
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Designed to bail out the British East India Company and expand the company's monopoly on the tea trade to all Colonies, selling excess tea at a reduced price
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Colonists disguise as Indians, emptied 342 chests of tea into the harbor of Boston
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Punishment for the destruction wrought during the Boston Tea Party
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Delegates from each of the 13 colonies met to organize colonial resistance
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British troops are sent to confiscate colonial weapons, they run into an untrained and angry militia. This army defeats 700 British soldiers
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British defeated the Americans. Despite their loss, it provided them with a confidence boost
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Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine advocating independence from Great Britain
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Attempt to assert the rights of the colonists while maintaining their loyalty to the British crown.
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America declaring independence from the ruling of Great Britain. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.