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acts of Parliament intended to promote the self-sufficiency of the British Empire by restricting colonial trade to England and decreasing dependence on foreign imported goods. -
This war provided Great Britain with enormous territorial gains in North America.
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a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. -
a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide -
cut the duty on foreign molasses from 6 to 3 pence per gallon. -
an act that imposed a direct tax on the colonists -
a series of measures, passed by the British Parliament, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies -
a confrontation in Boston, in which nine British soldiers shot five people in a crowd that was abusing the soldiers and daring them to shoot at them. -
a protest in which American colonists dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor because of the tax placed on tea. -
a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party -
a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies and the primary accomplishment was a compact among the colonies to boycott British goods. -
these battles kicked off the American Revolutionary War -
appointed ambassadors issued paper currency, raised the Continental Army through conscription, and appointed generals to lead the army. -
the final effort of the Second Continental Congress to persuade King George lll of England to respond to the concerns of the American colonists and to settle their differences amicably. -
the first major defeat of the war for the Americans -
a 47-page pamphlet in which Thomas Paine advocated for independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. -
(1)God made all men equal and gave them rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
(2)the main business of the government is to protect these rights
(3)if a government tried to withhold these rights, the people would be free to revolt and set up a new government -
British soldiers raided Valley Forge because American troops had built a handful of storage facilities. -
this battle proved to be the decisive engagement of the American Revolution -
ended the American Revolution