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The law in which parliament established the first direct taxation of goods and services. this led to the boston tea party by colonists protesting against goods like tea
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The dumping of 18,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor by colonists to protest the Tea Act.
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adopted by the Continental Congress in July 1775 in a fortified attempt to avoid a full-blown war between the Thirteen Colonies that the Congress represented, and Great Britain.
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The document written by Thomas Jefferson , the delegates of the continental congress declared the colonies independence from britain.
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It was an agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution.
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It was an armed uprising that took place in central and western Massachusetts.
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known as the Connecticut Compromise, solved the issue of how the states were represented in congress.
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a compromise between Southern and Northern states reached during the Philadelphia convention of 1787 in which three-fifths of the enumerated population of slaves would be counted for representation purposes regarding both the distribution of taxes and the apportionment of the members of the United States House of Representatives.
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the supreme law of the United States of America.
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name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.