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Between Great Britain and it's enemies in North America, the French and the Indians.
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Put a three-cent tax on foreign sugar, as well as banned the importation of French rum and most French wines
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The first direct tax placed on the American colonists by Britain. It required a British stamp on any public or legal document to show that the tax had been payed.
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Patrick Henry stated that King Goerge III would have done well to learn from the mistakes of past rulers who were assasinated
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Taxes placed on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. These taxes were repealed later because of the series of protests from the colonists. Only the tax on tea remained.
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The shooting of five American colonists by British troops, which resulted in further mistrust and unrest with regards to British military presence in the colonies.
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The "Sons of Liberty" duisguised themselves as Mohawk Indians, boarded British ships, and dumped 342 crates of tea into the Hudson River in response to the British tax on tea
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Delegates from all the colonies except Goergia came to meet secretly, and discuss liberty
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Paul Revere makes his famous ride through the countryside warning the American colonists that the British are coming.
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The first shot was fired at the British soldiers in Lexington, while the British were marching towards the American colonist's arms depot in Concord.
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In their second meeting, the Continental Congress addressed the disorginization of the colonist troops, and appointed George Washington as commander-in-chief
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Headed by Ethan Allen and supported by Benedict Arnold and the Green Mountain Boys, the capture of Fort Ticonderoga was the American colonist's first official victory against the British.
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Occupied by Americans in order to protect Boston's shipyard, the British attacked the next day. After suffering a high number of casualties, British troops took the hill. The Americans did not retreat, however, untill their lack of ammunition forced them to.