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The stamp act was a tax from the British Parliament to the British America. The purpose of this act was to help pay for the British who were stationed in North America. The British government thought that the colonies should at least pay a bit of their cost.
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The Stamp Act congress was a gathering of a rebellious time. Delegates from various colonies came to represent their. Throughtout the Northern colonies there was an association who were against the stamp act called the Son's of Liberty. James Otis argued that there should be no taxation without representation in the Stamp act congress because Americans have the right to choose someone who can legislate them.
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The Townshend Act was an act that placed taxes on certain objects like Tea. The colonists reaction was the same as the Sugar and Stamp act. Britian eventually repealled the taxes except for the tea.
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The Boston Massacre killed five cilivian men by the British. They had guns and just opened fire which killed these five men. The Boston Massacre deepened American distrust to the British.
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The Tea Act was an act that placed no taxes from the British government on Tea. It was basically giving The British company a tax break from the colonies. The British needed money to pay for the French & Indian war so they taxed the colonists which they refused to pay. The British ran out of money.
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The Boston Tea Party was an event when colonists threw all the tea on the British ship into the British Harbor. Three British ships docked at the Boston Harbor. Samuel Adams, John Hancock and eighty other men disguised themselves as Native Amercans and threw all the tea that were on those three ships in the Boston Harbor
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The Intorelable Acts of the Justice Act allowed the governor of a colony to move trials to other colonies or even England if he feared that juries in these colonies wont judge a case fairly.
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The Intolerable Acts of the Boston Port Acts which closed the port of Boston until the price of the dumped tea was recovered, moved the massachusetts capital to Salem and made the Marblehead the official port of entry for Massachusetts colony.
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The Intolerable acts of Massachusetts Bay Regulating Act made law officers to have an appointment by the royal governor and banned all town meetings didn't have approval by the royal governor.
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The Intolerable act of the Quartering Act made the soldiers in the colony not available to stay in houses or any other empty builldings.
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The Intolerable Act of the Quebec Act was an act that granted the nonreligious government and religious freedom to catholics living in Quebec.
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The 1st Continental congress was a meeting for representatives of other colonies except Georgia to discuss their response to the British of the Intolerable Acts. They colonies met in secret because they didn't want to let Great Britain know that they were united.
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The Lexington and Concord battel was a shot heard from around the world. No one is sure who fired first but both sides opened fire and the Americans were forced to fall back. When the Redcoats reached Concord the Americans were waiting for them in force. The depot was safe and the British retreated. The skirmishes were overcome by Paul Revere;s ride warning them that the British were coming.
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The 2nd Continental congress was when the revolutionary war started. The Continental congress created a Continental army and named George Washington as commander-in-chief.
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The Battle of Bunker Hill was a battle fought in Boston massachusetts between the Americans and the British. The victory for the British was a great cost of people. The Americans showed that the British can have great loss.
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The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by the 2nd Continental congress. A group of small radicals lead by John Adams felt that the war with Great Britain was meant to happen. However to avoid the the war they passed a resolution known as the Olive Branch Petition.
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Thomas Paine was the writer who wrote the Common Sense. The Common Sense was a pamphlet demanded the complete independence from Great Britain.
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The Declaration of Independance was a desperate act of freedom. The colonists thought that the British and their king, King George III were making too many laws to have their own freedom.
