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An act that exacted revenue from the American colonies by commanding a stamp duty on newspapers and all other documents.
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Issued by King George III following Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the French and Indian War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.
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An act of the British Parliament, which after the repeal of the Stamp act and the changing and lessening of the Sugar act.
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The Townshend Acts were a bunch of acts passed by the British Parliament.
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The Townshend Acts were a bunch of acts passed by the British Parliament.
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A street fight between a "patrot" mob, throwing different things, and a group of British soldiers. A few colonist were killed and that led to a campaign to rouse the anger of citizens.
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Granted the British East India Company Tea a holding on tea sales in the colonies.
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The Boston Tea party was a potical protest by the Sons of Liberty. John Adams referred to by John Adams as "The Destruction od the Tea in Boston".
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The American Patriots' term for a series of disciplinary laws passed by the British Parliament after the Boston tea party.
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Was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thriteen colonies that meet at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the Revolution.
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Managed the colonial war effort, and advanced towards independence, adopting the Declaration of independece.
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Paul Revere, Wentworth Cheswell, William Dawes were instructed to ride to Lexington to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were coming to arrest them.
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Was the first battle of the Revolutionary war. British troops went from Boston to Lexington and Concord to colect millitary supplies and arrest recoutionaries.
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Signed in Paris by representatives of King Geogre III of Great Britain and represnetatives of the U.S.A. ending the American Revolutionary War.