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In the fall of 1763, a royal decree was issued that prohibited the North American colonists from establishing or maintaining settlements west of an imaginary line running down the crest of the Appalachian Mountains.
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The quartering act basically meant that you had to house an England soldier. It was not an option.
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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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A series of measures introduced into the English Parliament by Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend in 1767, the Townshend Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies.
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The Boston Massacre was the british soldiers opening fire on a crowd of normal people in Boston.
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The Committees of Correspondence were the American colonies’ means for maintaining communication lines in the years before the Revolutionary War.
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The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston.
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The boston Tea party was when the colonists were fed up with all of britains unfair laws and dumped all of their tea into the harbor
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On May 10, 1773, Parliament passed the Tea Act with the goal of aiding the struggling British East India Company.
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The shot heard around was world was the first shot in the battler of lexington and the battle of concord
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The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed.
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Drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776, the Declaration of Independence is at once the nation's most cherished symbol of liberty and Jefferson's most enduring monument.
