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Treaty ended the French and Indian War. The British now has control of the Ohio River Valley.
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Duty on imported sugar from the West Indies. It as the first tax levied on the colonists by the crown and was lowered substantially in suppress to widespread protests.
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Assembly of delegates from nine colonies who met in New York City to draft a petition for the repeal of the Stamp Act. Helped ease sectional suspicions and promote inter colonial unity.
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Required colonies to provide food and quarters for British troops.
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Imposed a light import duty on glass, white led, paper, paint, and tea.
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British shot and killed 5 people when being harassed by a mob in Boston.
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100 Bostonians disguised as Indians got on the ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor.
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Meant to punish Massachusetts colonists for their resistance in the Tea Party protest.
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Met in Philadelphia. 12 out of the 13 colonies sent 55 men each, Georgia did not.
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A meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America which united in the American Revolutionary War.
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The American forces learned that the British were planning on taking over the hills around Boston in order to gain a tactical advantage.
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Stated that the British Parliaments taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain.
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Settlement declaring freedom of the Thirteen Colonies from Great Britain.
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Washington recrossed the Delaware River and captured 1,000 Hessians.
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Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington as French and American forces trapped the British at Yorktown. The British surrender at the Battle of Yorktown and ended the American Revolutionary War.
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