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French and Indian war
This event happened because each wanted more power. Also each wanted more land for themselves.
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Stamp act
The stamp act makes people pay tax for using and buying printed pieces of paper, newspapers, legal documents.
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Townshed act
This act imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, and tea imported from the colonies
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Boston massacre
During this time the government was trying to increase the colonies and raise the taxes at the same time. So soldiers were ordered to stop the people from rising.
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Boston tea party
This happened because the colonist did not want to pay taxes on the British tea, so they rebelled and this was on the newspaper.
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Tea act
This was passed to save the East Indian company by going broke and lowering the taxes.
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1st and 2nd continental congress
This was a convention called together of all 13 colonies. The accomplishment was to boycott British goods.
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Intolerable acts
The intolerable act was made to punish the colonist for what happened at the boston tea party. This was a Harsh law.
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Lexington and concord
The Americans fired the first shot on this day. Also the thirteen colonies and the British authorities had been arguing for the longest time.
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Publishing of common sense
Thomas Paine was a publisher and wrote this sort of story Called ''common sense'' and it stated about American independence.
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http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/thomas-paine-publishes-common-sense
