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This taxed all tea and coffee.
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new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used
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was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under intense attack by a mob
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On the night of December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard
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Battle of Lexington and Concord was the first military engagement of the American Revolutionary War
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Was the statement which announced that the thirteen American colonies regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer were under British Rule. It reflected the enlightenment thinking by the idea that all people are entitled to certain rights just by virtue of being human, belief that a government's legitimacy comes from the consent of the governed, and a governments main purpose is to protect the rights of the people.
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Battle of Saratoga was the turning point of the Revolutionary War.
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On October 19, 1781, the British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered his troops in Yorktown, Virginia
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September 1786, at the Annapolis Convention, delegates from five states called for a Constitutional Convention in order to discuss possible improvements to the Articles of Confederation
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Reflected Enlightenment ideas such as liberalism and philosophical ideas.