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also known as the seven year war between great Britain and France.
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this proclamation issued on October 7, 1763 forced the colonist to stay behind the appellation mountains.
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also known as the American Revenue Act of 1764 put tax on imported goods
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passed by British parliament this act imposed tax on every paper document.
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parliament passed this act to outline the locations and conditions in which British soldiers would inhabit.
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A series of measures introduced into the English Parliament to imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies.
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British soldiers, who were quartered in the city, fired into a rioting mob killing five American civilians in the Boston "Massacre".
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British policy and established a political union among the Thirteen Colonies. Letter from Samuel Adams to James Warren. British policy and established a political union among the Thirteen Colonies.
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was designed to bail out the British East India Company and expand the company's tea trade to all British Colonies, selling excess tea at a reduced price.
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a raid on three British ships in Boston harbors in which Boston colonists, disguised as Indians, threw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against British taxes on tea.
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also called the Coercive Acts were harsh laws passed by the British Parliament. They were meant to punish the American colonists for the Boston Tea Party and other protests.
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delegates from each of the 13 colonies except for Georgia met in Philadelphia as the First Continental Congress to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts.
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a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the spring of 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It succeeded the First Continental Congress, which met in Philadelphia.
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First Revolutionary Battle of the american revolution.
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Paine used spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain.
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written to adopted by the Second Continental Congress, states the reasons the British colonies of North America sought independence; The King interfered with the colonists' right to self-government and for a fair judicial system.