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The British raised revenue by direct taxation on different goods like newspapers and ship bills -
An act to exert authority over the colines by strict preventions passed by British in America -
British Army detachment threatened by harassment killed 5 Bostonians in Boston. -
Colonials protest on taxing tea by dumping £10,000 worth of tea in the Boston harbor -
Revenge for colonial resistance to the British they sent the intolerable acts for example removing all territory and fur trade between the Ohio and Mississippi river. -
In response to the intolerable acts, it was a meeting with all the representatives for the colonies (Georgia never came) -
a speech convincing people that war with Great Britain was inevitable -
The declaration of independence was written by Thomas Jefferson -
Already was secretly helping America but signed a treaty of alliance to make it official -
Benedict Arnold surrendered the fort at west point -
Articles of Confederation were ratified on March 1, 1781 years after being made -
British signed the treaty to acknowledge the independence of the United States