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Britain and France fought over land in North America
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Britain won
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didn't American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains. Also granted Britain a great deal of North American Land.
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Required colonists to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper
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Series of laws, placed new taxes and took away some freedoms from the colonists.
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Required the colonists to house British soldiers.
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Granted the company the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies without landing it in England first.
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Political protest in Boston where colonists dressed up as native americans and dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor. The colonists were mad at the excessive taxes.
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5 Acts. 4 were passed as reprisal for the rebellion
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British soldiers opened fire on a group of American colonists, killing 5 men. The colonists harassed the soldiers because the British imposed taxes on tea, glass, paper, pain and lead.
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Taxed goods like sugar, coffee and cloth. Colonists had no say so because there were no representatives in Parliament.
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A meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States.
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Phrase referring to the opening of the American Revolutionary War.
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Meeting to organize a continental army
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Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the 13 colonies
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Document declaring independence from British rule.