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While the delegates to the convention like the plan and approve it, not a single colonial legislature approves.
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Direct taxation on many colonial transactions. Met with riots, stamp burning, and attacks on colonial tax collectors.
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Britain attempted to gain control of colonial governments in addition to taxing more items.
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Tensions between British soldiers and residents are high, and a street fight turns into a massacre.
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Listing the reasons that the colonies needed to break away from Great Britain, the Declaration was an attempt to explain why the colonies were at war.
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Farmers (Revolutionary War veterans) rebel against the Massachusetts state government between 1786 and 1787 and a minor battle occurs. The conflict pointed out the inability of the national government to deal with violent threats within its own territory. https://www.history.com/topics/early-us/shays-rebellion -
Originally a convention to revise the Articles of Confederation, the Convention instead decides to draft a completely new Constitution.
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