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Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America. American colonists were angered by the Stamp Act and acted quickly to oppose it. The colonists made clear their opposition by simply refusing to pay the tax.
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These acts imposed cuties on British china, glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea imported to the colonies. The colonists protested "no taxation without representation," arguing that British Parliament did not have the right to tax them because they lacked representation in the legislative body. Colonists organized boycotts of British goods to pressure Parliament to repeal the Townshend Acts.
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In 1767 the British Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, designed to exert authority over the colonies. Tensions began to grow, and in Boston 1770 a patriot mob attacked a British loyalist. This incident fueled the anger of the colonists, they used massacre as propaganda.
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A group of 60 American colonists threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to agitate both a tax on tea and the perceived monopoly of the East India Company, in an act of protest. The American colonists believed that Britain was unfairly taxing them and was protesting the tax on tea, taxation without representation.
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The Intolerable Acts, the Boston port act (closing the port of Boston and demanding that the city's residents pay nearly $1 million of tea dumped into the Boston Harbor.), the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice act, and the Quartering act (required colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies). Colonists responded to the Intolerable Acts with a show of unity, first continental congress to discuss and negotiate a unified approach to the British.
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The first two battles of the American Revolution are the Battle of Lexington and the Battle of Concord.
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The Olive Branch Petition was the final effort of the second continental congress to persuade King George III of England to respond to the concerns of the American colonists. While George III did not respond to the Olive Branch Petition, he did react to the petition by declaring his own Proclamation of Rebellion. In the Olive Branch Petition text it seems as if the colonists are loyal to Great Britain at the time. "We your Majesty's faithful subjects of the colonies...".
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The Declaration of Independence explains the colonists' right to revolution. It was the first formal statement by people asserting their right to choose government. In the Declaration of Independence it seems as if colonists are braking away from Great Britain. "That these United Colonies...are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown,...all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States."
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