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The dispute arose over the presence of British and French settlers in the Ohio River Valley
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Imposed a direct tax on the British colonies and plantations in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp
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They were designed to collect revenue from the colonists in America by putting customs duties on imports of glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea.
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Known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was a confrontation on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed several people while under harassment by a mob.
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the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War
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The purpose of Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" was to grow the patriot cause, and Paine argued for independence from England and the creation of a democratic republic.
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The Declaration announced that the Thirteen Colonies at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain would regard themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states, no longer under British rule.
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the first written constitution of the United States.
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Great Britain and the United States formally ended the war and recognized the new nation by signing the Treaty of Paris.
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The Bill of Rights in the United States is the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution