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Document signed by representatives of United States of America and Great Britain officially ending the Revolutionary War.
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Document declaring all settlement to be located past the Appalacian Mountains.
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Document stating you must pay taxes on sugar imports. It was a modification of the Sugar and Molasses Act.
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It was the first gathering of elected representatives from several of the American colonies to devise a unified protest against new British taxation.
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An act of british parliment that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents.
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An act that required the colonies to house british soliders in barracks provided by the colonies.
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It is the opening paragraphs of the declaration of independence.
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It is a taxation measure enacted to raise revenues for a standing British army in America.
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It is the declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act.
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The Townshend Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies.
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A street fight between the "patriots" in boston and the british soliders that resulted in the deaths of five civilians.
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The committees of correspondence were shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution.
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An act to allow a drawback of the duties of customs on the exportation of tea to any of his Majesty's colonies or plantations in America.
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A protest against taxes in which they dumped out a million dollars worth of tea.
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It was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies.
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The Intolerable Acts was the American Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament.
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A war that started the American revolutionary war.
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A brawl between the british and the colonies. The british won.
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Richard Penn and Arthur Lee, representing the Continental Congress, present the so-called Olive Branch Petition to the Earl of Dartmouth.Britain’s King George III, however, refused to receive the petition, which, written by John Dickinson, appealed directly to the king and expressed hope for reconciliation between the colonies and Great Britain.
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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 from Great Britain.
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The fundamental document establishing the United States as a nation.