Taxation and Mercantilism - Belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism
By Lydia_B19
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Benjamin Franklin founded the first idea that all the colonies should work together
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British and Colonists fought French and Indians
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Forbade all settlements west of a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains, which was delineated as an Indian Reserve
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Required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies
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Act of Parliament of Great Britain that imposed a direct tax on the 13 colonies
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Acts of Parliament relating to British American Colonies in North America
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British Army soldiers shot and killed 5 people while under attack by a mob
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Colonist dumped tea into the harbor
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Tax on tea
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A meeting of 13 colonies, they decided to boycott British goods
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A term created to call the punitive laws created after the Boston Tea Party
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First military engagements of the American Revolutionary War
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A convention of delegates from the 13 colonies. George Washington was commander in chief
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Great Britain wanted to have peace and no more conflict
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Brits passed a law that says they cant tax colonies without their consent.
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He tried to convince the colonies to break away from British rule
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An agreement among the 13 colonies as the first constitution
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Ended the Revolutionary War
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An assertion by a defined territory that it is independent and constitutes a state