Taxation and Mercantilism- belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.
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The British thought the colonists should help pay for the cost of their own protection. The French and Indian War had cost the British treasury 70,000,000 and doubled their national debt to 140,000,000.
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plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government.
Articles of Confederation-Agreement among the 13 original states of the United States that served as its first constitution. -
The proclamation prohibited settlers from crossing west over the Appalachian Mountains in order to prevent further conflicts between settlers and Native Americans.
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an act of the Parliament that imposed a direct tax on the British colonies and plantations in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper.
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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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a series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies.They placed new taxes and took away some freedoms from the colonists including the following: New taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea.
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A confrontation in which British Army soldiers shot and killed several people while under harassment by a mob
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an act of Great Britain's Parliament to impose a tax on tea and reduce the massive tea surplus of the British East India Company in London. Part of the Townshend Acts.
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A political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts
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The Intolerable Acts were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party.
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A name given to two or more Acts of British Parliament requiring local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with housing and food.
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delegates from each of the 13 colonies except for Georgia met in Philadelphia to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts.
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kicked off the American Revolutionary War. Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 colonies and the British authorities.
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They managed the Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence. They decided to create a Continental army.
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It asked for the rights of colonist while maintaining their loyalty to Britain.
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He tried to get colonies to fight for their independence from Great Britain.
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The statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia.
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Agreement among the 13 original states of the United States that served as its first constitution.
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Signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America. It ended the American Revolutionary War.