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Laws passed by England to maintain control over colonial trade. The acts made colonists by English goods and limited trade with other countries.
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The document that ended the war between Britain and France over the Ohio River Valley. This treaty ended French power in North America and expanded British and increased British debt
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The act that prevented colonists from going past the Appalachian Mountains. This act didn't allow the colonists to go past the Appalachian Mountains which increased British taxes and caused Britain to pay for the war.
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This act lowered the tax on sugar. The British enforce this tax strictly and it lowered the tax on sugar to 3 pence.
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This act required all colonists to purchase stamps and stamp marks. This act requires every one to pay not just merchants to pay for stamps and stamp marks from England on every piece of legal paper and other printed papers.
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The stamp act congress was the first congress of the American colonies. It elected Representatives of the nine thirteen colonies.It was also were the representative voiced their op ion on the stamp act.
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The Quartering Act was a act that required the colonists to care for the British soldiers. The colonists would have to feed and house the British soldiers.
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The Declaratory Act was a act that gave the British authority over the colonists.
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The Townshend Act was were the British taxed all kinds of goods. Some of those goods were paper, glass, paint, and tea.
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The Boston Massacre was a shooting between the colonist and the British. A mob of colonist were yelling and throwing things at the guard that was protecting a British customs location. So the guard called for back up and they came and one of the colonist tricked one of the British soldiers into firing so then all of the British soldiers fired.
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The Tea act was a act that caused the colonist to only be able to buy tea from the British east India company. So because of that the Sons of liberty group was made. So the colonist were so mad that they dumped hundreds of dollars of British tea into the Boston harbor.
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The Boston Tea part was a protest were the colonist dumped British tea into the Boston harbor. The Boston Tea Party was caused by the Tea acts. The tea acts was a law were the colonist were only allowed to buy tea from The British East India company.
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The Coercive Acts were laws that the British passed because they were upset about the Boston Tea Party. It was a series of four acts passed. The point of These acts were to restore order in Massachusetts and punish Bostonian´s.
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The First Continental Congress planted the seeds for a future independent government. They voted to ban all trade with Britain until the Intolerable acts were repealed. They did not declare independence but wanted to uphold colonial rights.
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first battles that started the American Revolution. At the battle of Lexington No one knew who shot the first shot.
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The Second Continental congress Agreed to make and official army. They also agreed to name George Washington the general. Also authorized printing of money to pay soldiers.
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The Battle of Bunker hill was a battle that gave the colonist hope that they could beat the British. The colonist didn't have enough ammo to fight a long battle. The Colonist Colonel told the men to not fire until they saw the whites of there eyes because they didn't want to waste ammo.
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The colonist sent the Olive Branch Petition to try to avoid war with Britain. The Olive Branch Petition was significant because it showed the British they didn't want to fight them.
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The Common Sense article was published to make the colonist want to go to war with Britain. Because the colonist dint want to go to war with Britain.