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The stamp act was the first direct tax to the american colonist
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In 1770,a fight led bristish soldiers to fire into a group of colonist armed with clubs.Five colonist were killed in what is called the "Boston Massacre.
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Many colonist were unhappy about british control of the clonial tea trade .
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in 1714 , Delegates voted to ban all trade with britian until the Intolerable Acts were repealed.
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In 1774,British punish boston people by closing the port and sending additional troops also the British called these laws the Coercive Acts, but they were so harse that the colonists called them the Intolerable Acts.
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About 700 british soldiers met a group of minuteman in the battles of lexington and concord.
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On january 10,1776 ,Thomas Paine published a best selling pamphlet called Common Sense
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Thomas Jefferson drafted a document that called for separation
from britian.
