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April 5, 1764, Colony merchants had to pay a tax on sugar and molasses
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September 1, 1764, regulated paper money to the colonies.
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tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used
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Taxed colonies on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies.
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March 5, 1770, British solider's shot and killed people while under attack.
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government granted the East India Co. a monopoly on the importation and sale of tea in the colonies.
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The Sons of Liberty threw tea into the Boston Harbor as protest.
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Colonial citizens had to give up their houses to British soldiers if commanded to
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a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies
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the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War/ British won Lexington, Americans won Concord
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managed the Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence
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New England militiamen prevented the movement by land of the British Army garrisoned in what was then the peninsular city of Boston, Massachusetts
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They were meant to punish the American colonists for the Boston Tea Party and other protests