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The theory of exporting mor then you import. A favorable balance of trade. Trading raw materials with Great Britain for processed goods.
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Led to self government in the colonies. Meant to keep colonies obedient to England
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The British and French fought against each other. Both sides had Native Americans fighting with them. Fought over land and traded. Ended in 1763.
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Issued on October 9th, 1763. Britain prohibits Amercian colonists from settling west of Appalachian mountains.
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Required colonists to pay taxes on every piece of paper that they printed.
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Required the colonists to allow soldiers to live in their houses. Required them to also feed them along with housing.
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A meeting held between October 7th and October 25th of the first elected representatives of the colony. Came up with a plan to protest the tax from the government.
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The repeal of the stamp act
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Acts used to collect revenue from the colonists through taxation. Colonists did not like this.
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The British Soldiers killed 5 men and injured 6 others on King Street. There was a protest and it got heated and with orders the British shot into the crowd of colonists.
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Goal was to help the British East India Company. These taxes on the tea on top of the townshend acts made the colonists furious. Was meant to reduce smuggling in North American also.
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Protest by the Sons of Liberty. They boarded a ship of the East India Company and threw chests of tea overboard into the Boston Harbor.
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Acts that were made after the Boston Tea Party. Meant to punish the colonists. Colonists called them the Intolerable Acts and Britain called them the Coercive Acts. Took away Massachusetts self-government and historic rights.
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Delegations from 12 colonies, Georgia was absent, met in Carpenter's Hall in Pennsylvania. Tried to appeal the Intolerable Acts. It didn't work and a Second Continental Congress had to be called.
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First step to the American Revolutionary War. Fought in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. Marked the armed conflict of the 13 colonies and Great Britain.
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Delegates from all 13 colonies. Managed the colonial war effort. Moved toward independence by adopting the US Declaration of Independence on July 4th, 1776. Met soon after American Revolutionary warfare had begun.
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Published on January 10th, 1776. Inspired people to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain. Explained the advantages of and need for immediate independence. Had the largest sale of any book published in American History.
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Treaty of Paris Came to be.
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Ended the American Revolutionary War. A peace treaty. obtained larger boundaries for the colonies.
