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The Seven Years' War ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by France, Great Britain, and Spain.
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passed by the British Parliament. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists requiring them to pay a tax on every piece of paper they used.
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was the first gathering of representatives from several American colonies to devise a unified protest against British taxation.
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It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain.
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the British government placed new taxes and took away some freedoms from the colonists including the following: New taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea.
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British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. it was heavily publicized by leading Patriots such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams.
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Repealed on all but tea.They maintained the taxes on tea, in order to underscore the supremacy of parliament.
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imposed no new taxes on tea for American colonies.
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They threw tea chests into the Boston harbor to protest British Parliament's tax on tea
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Passed in response to the Boston Tea Party, they sought to punish Massachusetts as a warning to other colonies
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a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States
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British soldiers, called lobsterbacks because of their red coats, and minutemen, the colonists' militia exchanged gunfire at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts.
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a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America which united in the American Revolutionary War.
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The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence occurred primarily in August 2nd at a hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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a taxation measure enacted to raise revenues for a standing British army in America.
