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Benjamin Franklin suggested this plan and fell because the colonies were afraid of losing their autonomy or self government.
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The British thought the colonists would help pay for the cost of the War, but it doubled their national debt.
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Intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands.
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Requiring local governments to provide British soldiers with housing and food.
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A new tax imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
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A series of British Acts of Parliament.
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British Army soldiers shot and killed several people while under harassment by a mob
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Political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts
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Reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company.
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It was decided that each colony would be allotted one secret ballot.
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Punitive laws passed by the British Parliament. Boston Tea Party In Great Britain, these laws were referred to as the Coercive Acts.
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The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
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A document in which the colonists pledged their loyalty to the crown and asserted their rights as British citizens to King George.
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Established the Continental Army.
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Encouraged common people on the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government.
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Statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia.
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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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The original constitution of the US, which was later replaced by the US Constitution.
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Ended the Revolutionary War