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British Parliament took profits from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers, legal, and commercial documents.
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American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians threw 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company from ships into Boston Harbor.
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British troops are sent to confiscate colonial weapons, they run into militia defeats 700 British soldiers and the surprise victory
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Convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that formed in Philadelphia.
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The British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts. Despite their loss, the inexperienced colonial forces and significant casualties against the enemy, the battle provided them with an important confidence boost which is something greatly influential at the time of war.
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Final attempt by the colonists to avoid going to war with Britain during the American Revolution. It was a document in which the colonists pledged their loyalty to the crown and asserted their rights as British citizens.
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Thomas Paine who published Common Sense which turned out to be a hugely influential pamphlet that convinced many American colonists that the time had finally come to break away from British rule.
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By issuing the Declaration of Independence the 13 American colonies cut their political connections to Great Britain it summarized the colonists' motivations for seeking independence.
