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the proclamation prohibited settlers from crossing west over the Appalachian Mountains in order to prevent further conflicts between settlers and Native Americans.
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British Parliament in 1765 the exacted revenue from American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. Colonial opposition led to act´s repeal in 1766 and helped encourage the revolutionary movement against the crown
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a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations and housing. Required colonist to provide food for any British soldiers in the area.
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an act of the parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the stamp act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act.
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series of acts taxed items like tea, paper, and glass.
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a riot in Boston arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which troops fired on the mob and killed several persons.
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Shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the 13 colonies on the eve of the American Revolution
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an act of the Parliament of the Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive.
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a raid on three British ships in Boston Harbor. In which Boston colonists disguised as Indians, threw the contents of several hundred of chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against British taxes on tea.
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statement adopted by the second continental congress meeting at the Pennsylvania state house in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776, which announced the American 13 colonies at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain, regarded themselves as 13
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a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson about the battle of Lexington and Concord.
