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The Treaty of Paris signified the end of the Seven Years' War.
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A law made by Britain that porhibited colonists from settling west of the Applachian mountains.
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The first ever law passed by the Parliament for raising tax revenue in the colonies for the crown.
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The stamp tax was a tax passed by the British parilment that made all paper used in the colonies to be taxed to have a certification and stamp on it.
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A law passed by the British Parliment forcing all colonists to allow British Soldiers to go inside their homes and eat their food.
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Brought together in New York City twenty-seven delegates from nine colonies. The members drew up a statement of their rights and grievances and beseeched the king and Parliament to repeal the repugnant legislation.
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The declaratory act allowed the British government to make any laws about and towards the colonies.
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A light import duty on glass, white lead, paper, paint, and tea.
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Acting without orders, British troops opened fire and killed or wounded eleven citizens.
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The first committee of ccorrespondence was formed by Samuel Adams during 1772 in Boston.
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Roughly 100 Bostonians, disguised as Indians, boarded docked ships and dumped over 300 boxes of tea into the Atlantic Ocean.
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This is when the intolerabls started into effect into the Americas. These were laws that restricted American colonists from doing simple day to day activities such as holding town meetings.
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Gave French Canadiens complete religious freedom and restored the French form of civil law.
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Twenty-five men from all of the colonies met in Philadelphia to consider ways of redressing colonial grievances.
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This was a sending of British troops to go and take gunpowder from the rebels and to "bag" Samuel Adams and John Hancock for leading the rebellion.
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A document that declared the American colonies independent from Britain.