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Angered by the Tea Acts, American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians dump a bunch of East India Company tea into the Boston harbor.
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Ending the Seven Year’s War, also known as the French and Indian War in North America.
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Wary of the cost of defending the colonies, George Washington prohibited all settlement west of the Appalachian mountains without guarantees of security from local Native American nations.
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The first attempt to finance the defence of the colonies by the British Government
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an act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal documents
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Colonial assemblies required to pay for supplies to British garrisons. The New York assembly argued that it could not be forced to comply.
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representatives from nine of the thirteen colonies declare the Stamp Act unconstitutional as it was a tax levied without their consent.
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Parliament finalizes the repeal of the Stamp Act, but declares that it has the right to tax colonies
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Duties on tea, glass, lead, paper and paint to help pay for the administration of the colonies, named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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Angered by the presence of troops and Britain's colonial policy, a crowd began harassing a group of soldiers guarding the customs house; a soldier was knocked down by a snowball and discharged his musket cauing a riot
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In an effort to support the ailing East India Company, Parliament exempted its tea from import duties and allowed the Company to sell its tea directly to the colonies.
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Four measures which stripped Massachusetts of self-government and judicial independence following the Boston Tea Party. The colonies responded with a general boycott of British goods. -
First engagements of the Revolutionary War between British troops and the Minutemen, who had been warned of the attack by Paul Revere.
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Issued $2 million bills of credit to fund the army.
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the formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain.
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Lacking supplies, 5,700 British, German and loyalist forces under Major General John Burgoyne surrender to Major General Horatio Gates in a turning point in the Revolutionary War.
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