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They were acts of Parliament intended to promote the self-sufficiency of the British Empire by restricting colonial trade to England and decreasing dependence on foreign imported goods.
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The English battled the French and the Indians. The British won.
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It taxed all papers and official documents in the American colonies, though not in England.
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Colonists were throwing objects at British redcoats and the redcoats fired back killing five colonists and injuring a couple more.
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The act granted the company the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies without first landing it in England.
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Colonists boarded English vessels to throw tea into the Boston harbor to protest against “taxation without representation”.
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The Intolerable Acts were a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party.
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Delegates from twelve of Britain's thirteen American colonies met to discuss America's future under growing British aggression.
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delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolutionary War met to discuss about the country.
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These were the first battles in the Revolutionary War. “The shot heard ‘round the world”.
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The Americans wrote a letter or document to England saying that they want to be their own independent nation.
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Valley forge was a winter encampment of the Continental Army under General George Washington during the American Revolutionary War.
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A battle in Northern New York that was the turning point in the war for the Americans.
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The battle of Yorktown is where the British surrendered to the French and American thereby ending the war.
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The 13 colonies made rules and standards for their new government.
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The rules for our government were now verified and made real and put into action.