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American physician and statesman, delegate to the Continental Congress for New Hampshire (Declaration of Independence)
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Boston Committee of Correspondence circulated letter urging the colonies to stop trading with England.
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War between Great Britain and France, as well as their respective allies.
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The end of the French and Indian War, the British intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands.
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Paying taxes (increased taxes on sugar) which impacted the manufacture in New England.
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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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Quartering Act: the outlining the locations and conditions in which British soldiers are to find room and board in the American colonies.
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Americans Colonies first Congress was a meeting held between October 7 and 25, 1765. in New York city.The objective of the representatives was to devise a unified protest against new British taxation.
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Arguing that only their own representative assemblies could tax them, They resorted to mob violence to intimidate stamp collectors into resigning.
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British Parliament’s taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain
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Americans viewed the taxation as an abuse of power, resulting in the passage of agreements to limit imports from Britain.
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mob throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks at the British soldiers. Several colonists were killed.
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Shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution.
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indebted British government in the decade leading up to the American Revolutionary War
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This famed act of American colonial defiance served as a protest against taxation
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Intolerable Acts: means American Patriots' a name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor.
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document written by the Stamp Act Congress and passed on October 19, 1765. It declared that taxes imposed on British colonists without their formal consent were unconstitutional.
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British soldiers quartered in Boston, capture Colonial leaders Sam Adams and John Hancock.But fail because of spies and friends of the Americans leaked word of Gage's plan.
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The British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts.
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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. to King George III, but then herefused to receive the petition.
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Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet “Common Sense,” setting forth his arguments in favor of American independence.
