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signed by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement, after Britain's victory over France and Spain.The signing of the treaty formally ended the Seven Years' War, known as the French and Indian War in the North American theatre
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forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.
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colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses
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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 house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies.
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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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was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act.
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series of four acts passed by the British Parliament in an attempt to assert what it considered to be its historic right to exert authority over the colonies.
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was a street fight that occurred between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed.
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were the American colonies’ means for maintaining communication lines in the years before the Revolutionary War
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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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was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. dumped britush tea from a boat into the harber
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American Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party.
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a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
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It declared that taxes imposed on British colonists without their formal consent were unconstitutional.
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the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
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a battle during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War.
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a final attempt to avoid a full-on war between the Thirteen Colonies
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advocated independence for the American colonies from Britain.
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ax on the colonies of British America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp.
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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.