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The French and Indian War happened because of the Treaty of Paris. It also made Great Britain very powerful.
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The New Albany Plan was implemented to try and unite the colonies together.
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The Stamp Act was a tax on all the British colonies. They taxed all paper goods and it was bad because paper was like our iPhone today.
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The Stamp Act Congress was a gathering of elected representatives to go and oppose British Taxation and not have the Stamp of Sugar Acts.
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Started by passing the Townshend act which taxed galls, white lead, paper, paint, and TEA. The colonists are upset and they refused taxation without representation. A fight broke out between colonists and British troops they threw snowballs escalated to rocks then the British supposedly shouted fire and shot colonists.
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The British thought they could be smart and sneak 17 million pounds of tea. So the colonists dressed up as Indians and dumped all the tea into the Boston Harbor.
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Laws that the British imposed after the Boston Tea Party on the colonists. They closed the harbor until all the damages were payed for by the colonists.
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Colonies get together to talk about what the British are doing. They draw out the declaration of rights. Most significant thing was a non importation non exportation and non consumption to boycott all British goods.
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At the Battle of Concord the American Militia killed many British Red Coats and at the Battle of Lexington British Red Coats killed many American Militia troops.
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It's America's Birth Certificate. A sacred document for Americans. It gives the reason the country was created and the hopes, ideas and beliefs that Americans have for their country.
