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The American Revolutionary war was kicked off on April 19,1775 by the battles of Lexington and Concord. Tension built for many years between the 13 American Colonies residents and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts. Hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache, on the night of April 18, 1775.

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The First Continental Congress, which was comprised of delegates from the colonies, met in 1774 in reaction to the Coercive Acts, a series of measures imposed by the British government on the colonies in response to their resistance to new taxes.

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The Intolerable's were a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in the mid-1770's. The British instated the acts to make an example of the colonies after the Boston Tea Party, and the outrage the cause became the major push that led to the outbreak American Revolution in 1775.

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The Boston Tea Party was the key-event for the Revolutionary War. This act started the violent part of the revolution with the colonists. It was the first try of the colonists, to rebel with violence against their own government. Then the government passed taxes on lead, paint, paper and tea.

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Townshend hoped the acts would provide imperial expenses in the colonies, but many Americans viewed the taxation as an abuse of power, resulting in the passage of agreements to limit imports from Britain. Parliament repealed all the Townshend duties except the tax on tea, leading to a temporary truce between the two sides in 1770 in the years before the American Revolution.

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Considered to be the first battle of the Revolutionary War by many colonist.The terrible incident happened on March 5 ,1770. 5 colonists were killed iin result of the massacre.Made it clear the British soldiers were unwanted.

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The Quartering Act the colonists disputed the legality of this act because it seemed to violate the Bill of Rights of 1689. British officers who had fought in the French and Indian War found it hard to persuade colonial assemblies to pay for quartering and providing their troops.

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Although resented, the Sugar Act tax was hidden in the cost of import duties, and most colonists accepted it. The Stamp Act however, was a direct tax on the colonists and led to an uproar in America over an issue that was to be a major cause of the American Revolution.

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October 7, 1763 a proclamation that forbade colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains was issued by king George III. By doing that he hoped it would make the Native Americans less angry. Enforcement was so weak George Washington didn't pay attention to it, except as a source of anti-British sentiment leading up to the american Revolution.

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In 1754 the French and Indian war began and then ended with the treaty of Paris in 1763. The war gave Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America but arguments over subsequent frontier policy and paying the wars expenses led to colonial discontent and ultimately to the American Revolution.

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British attempts to limit the west by colonists and inadvertent provocation of a major Indian war further made the British subjects living in the American colonies angry. These disputes ultimately spurred colonial rebellion, which soon developed into a full-out war for independence.