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The British Parliament, declared that only English ships would be allowed to bring goods into England, and that the North American colonies could only export things such as tobacco and sugar, to England. -
prohibited American colonists from living on lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian War. -
When the British reinforced Navigation Acts, other trade restrictions and regulations, also placing more taxes on the American colonies -
cut the order of foreign molasses from 6 to 3 pence per gallon, prohibited foreign rum, and high duty of foreign refined sugar -
political organization founded to advance the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government -
To raise money to pay the army by putting a tax on all legal and official papers -
created taxes on glass, lead, paper, and tea -
nine British soldiers shot several of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles. -
a way for colonial legislatures to communicate with their agents in London -
The Boston Tea Party was a protest on December 16, 1773, by the Sons of Liberty in Boston Massachusetts. -
The Intolerable Acts were a series of five punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. -
a meeting of delegates of 12 of the Thirteen Colonies held at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia at the beginning of the American Revolution. -
The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by Congress on July 5, 1775, to be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared. -
the meetings of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolution and the Revolutionary War, which established American independence from the British Empire. -
In this first battle of the American Revolution, Massachusetts colonists defied British authority, outnumbered and outfought the Redcoats. -
"Give me liberty or give me death!" is a quotation attributed to American politician and orator Patrick Henry from a speech he made to the Second Virginia Convention on March 23, 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia. -
The Declaration of Independence expresses the ideals on which the United States was founded and the reasons for separation from Great Britain. -
Common Sense is a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.