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belief in the benefits of profitable trading
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Benjamin Franklin Created unified government
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Colonists helped pay for their own protection
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issued after the French and Indian War
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requiring local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with housing and food
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Repeal of Stamp act and lessening of the sugar act by Parliament in Great Britain
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direct tax on the 13 Colonies
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intensified colonial rage toward the British crown
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British Army soldiers shot and killed five people while under attack by a mob
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Sons of Liberty dumped tea into the harbor
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reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled
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boycott of British goods
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a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party
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First military engagements of the American Revolutionary war
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final attempt to avoid a full-scale war between Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies
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Continental army was created
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13 Colonies declared independence as the United States of America
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Statement adopted by the second continental congress
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advocating independence from Great Britain
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Agreement among the 13 Colonies
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ended the Revolutionary war