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New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
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https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/boston-massacre
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1750-1775/french-indian-war#:~:text=NOTE%20TO%20READERS-,French%20and%20Indian%20War%2FSeven%20Years'%20War%2C%201754%E2%80%93,Treaty%20of%20Paris%20in%201763.
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The war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War. The French and Indian War ended with the Treaty of Paris.
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Instead of putting a tax on trade goods, the Stamp Act imposed a direct tax on the colonists. The act required that starting in the fall of 1765, legal documents and printed materials must include a tax stamp given by elected distributors who would collect the tax in exchange for the stamp.
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The Sons of Liberty was a secret revolutionary organization that was founded by Samuel Adams in the Thirteen American Colonies to further the rights of the European colonists and to fight taxation by the British government. It played a big role in most colonies in battling the Stamp Act in 1765.
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They taxed goods and imported them to the American colonies.They saw it as an abuse of power.
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A street fight that happened between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a group of British soldiers.
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The Americans were frustrated at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.
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Intolerable Acts, also called Coercive Acts, in U.S. colonial history, four punitive actions enacted by the British Parliament in retaliation for acts of colonists rebellion, together with the Quebec Act establishing a new administration for the territory given to Britain after the French and Indian War
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The Olive Branch Petition was a final attempt by the colonists to avoid going to war with Britain during the American Revolution. It was a document in which the colonists pledged their loyalty to the crown and asserted their rights as British citizens. The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by Congress on July 5, 1775.
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Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Colonies. Paine assembled moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for a fairer government.
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The Battle of Yorktown was against British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and 9,000 British troops. It made Washington's reputation as a great leader and as first president of the United States
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The ending of the War of the American Revolution. It granted the U.S. significant western territory.
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Three-fifths compromise, an agreement between delegates from the Northern and the Southern states at the United States Constitutional Convention that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives.
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It is the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, confirming the fundamental rights of American citizens
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