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On October 7, 1763, King George III issued a proclamation that forbade colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.He hoped to placate native americans who sided against him in the 7 years war.
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The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
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required the colonies to provide barracks and supplies to British troops. It let troops stay in the homes with anyone.
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declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain.
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They were designed to collect revenue from the colonists in America. They got most revenue from glasss, tea, paint, lead, paper.
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The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a patriot mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers.
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In 1773, the Virginia House of Burgesses proposed that each colonial legislature appoint a committee for intercolonial correspondence.
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The tea act would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies.
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In Boston Harbor, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships and dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor.
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The Intolerable Acts was the American Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament.They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor.
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The first shots were fired just after dawn in Lexington, Massachusetts. It was the day America's War for Independence began
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Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence
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which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.
