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Left Britain in great debt and eager to avoid additonal wars with France
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Earliest attempt by British to recoup the cost of the French and Indian War by levying new taxes on the colonists, whom they blamed for the war
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Levied a tax on paper materials, which angered the colonist not due to its economic burden (which was light) but due to the predecedent it set for British dominance over the colonists
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Parliamnet said American colonists have to provide shelter and food to the permanent British troops stationed in the colonies. The colonists perceived this as an attack on their freedom.
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This group terrorized stamp agents and burned stamps in protest of the Stamp Act, as well as boycotting the acts and intimidating colonists compliant with the Stamp Act.
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meeting of delegates from nine colonies to petition the king to only tax the colonists through their own colonial assemblies, which was held in New York
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Parliament removed the Stamp Act to the colonists' delight.
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Parliament declared its authority to pass laws that bound the colonists, but few colonists paid attention because they were celebrating the repeal of the Stamp Act.
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A tax on various imported goods levied by Charles Townshed, which he thought was entirely reasonable the colonists' previously declared standards.
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When Townshed died, his duties fell to the new PM, Lord North, who repealed almost all of the Townshed Duties.
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Merchants from Philadelphia, Boston, and New York joined against importation from Britian in protest of new taxes and stricter enforcement.
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British troop opened fire on a crowd of colonists in confusion/chaos, killing five men. This became a rallying cry for rebellious colonists.
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The new Prime Minister, Lord North, repealed all of the Townshend Duties except for the tax on tea.
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Uprising in the colony of NC of the colonists against the British governmental officials who were regarded by the colonists as corrupt and unfair and charging excessive fees.
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A British ship for enforcing unpopular trade regulations ran aground and was subsequently ransacked and destroyed by colonists, leading to the Battle of Lexington and Concord
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John Adams suggested creating a committee to publicize the grievances against England.
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British East India Company established a monopoly on tea in America, which angered the colonists and lead to the Boston Tea Party
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The colonists, lead by the Sons of Liberty, destroyed large quantities of tea as an act of protest of taxes and new smuggling restrictions.
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These acts were intended to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party by restricting gatherings of the colonists and closing the Boston Harbor until they paid for the tea among other things.
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Delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies met in Philadelphia in response to the Intolerable Acts
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This is beginning of the fighting of the Revolutionary War by the colonists versus the British.