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stated between France and England over territorial disputes. France, being allied with Native Americans had the advantage throughout most of the war.
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The job of the government is to protect the rights of their people. If the government then chooses to violate those rights, it is the job of the people to overthrow that government.
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was a general warrant that allowed British customs agents to search any ship they believe to be smuggling goods.
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Set at the end of the French and Indian war. France gave Britain all of Canada and North America
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British government, in an attempt to prevent any other conflicted, prohibited colonists from moving past the Appalachian mountains.
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did three things: lowered the tax on sugar, taxed other products that had not been taxed before, and colonists accused of violating these laws would be tried by a vice-admirality.
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tax posed on documents such as wills, newspapers, and playing cards. First tax that directly affected colonists' lives.
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was put into effect after parliament repealled stamp act. This act stated that colonists could not deny the taxes being put on them.
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group, led by Samuel Adams, boycotted against the tax on tea. Later committed the Boston Tea Party.
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Taxed goods, such as lead, glass, paint, and paper. Tax also imposed on tea. colonists were outraged because they love their tea (and biscuts) and their rights.
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A mob gathered near the British Customs house and harassed soldies. Soliers killed five colonists.
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devised in order to save the British East India Company. Allowed them to sell their tea, untaxed to the colonies.
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boston rebels, disquised as natives,boarded an East India Company ship and dumped eighteen thousand pounds of tea into the harbor.
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Called upon by an infuriated King George, parliament passed three laws. The first closed down Boston Harbor. The second, the Quartering Act, allowed British soldiers to house themselves within vacant housing. The third law, replaced the previous Massachusetts governor with General Thomas Gage, who placed Boston under martial law.
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fifty-six delegates met in Philadelphia to draw up the basic rights of the colonists.
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Loyalists: colonists still loyal to the crown.
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These three people road throughout Boston, spreading word of seven hundred british soldiers approaching.
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British soldiers fought seventy minutemen at Lextington, five miles out of Concord. The battle lasted only fifteen minutes and eight minutemen were killed.
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British soldiers arrived here after the Battle of Lexington, to find an empty weapons cache. On their march back to Boston, they met four thousand minutemen, and were slaughtered by the dozens.
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Assembled by the continental congress, and led by George Washington, the minutemen were the onlyopposing forcethat stood against Britain.
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Many delegates gathered in Philadelphia to discuss their predicament with Great Britain. One of the only subjects that they could agree upon was the need of a Continental Army, so they appointed George Washington to lead their army.
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Created in order to combat Britain's armies, and led by General George Washington.
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British general, Thomas Gage, sent two-thousand four-hundred british soldiers up Bunker Hill to be shot down by the Continental army.Casualties for the british were over one-thousand, while the colonists lost four-hundred and fifty.
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Congress sent the Olive Branch Petition to King George in the hope to resurrect peace between Britain and the colonies. King George flatly rejected the offer, and even labeled the war to come as a rebellion and called for a naval blockade of the colonies.
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Published by thomas Paine, the ideas sculpted by this book attacked Britain's government for the way they used to rule the colonies.
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Redcoats push Washington's army across the Delaware River into Pennsylvania.
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Washington leads a gambit sneak attack to a Hessian ammo cache. They take the soldiers by surprise and the fort.
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The author, Thomas Jefferson,drafted this document as a declaration to Great Britain, and other countries that the colonies are united as America.
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Burgyone was surrounded and surrendered here.
