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Prohibited Angola-American colonists from settling on lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian War.

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the American phase of a worldwide seven-year war fought between France and Great Britain. Also called the Seven Years War, As a result of the war, France ceded all of its North American possessions east of the Mississippi River to Britain. The costs of the war contributed to the British government’s decision to impose new taxes on its American colonies.

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Search warrants that allowed Custom officials to search suspects, of people who may have been smuggling but don't have evidence.

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The Sugar Act cut the duty on foreign molasses from 6 to 3 pence per gallon, retained a high duty on foreign refined sugar, and prohibited the importation of all foreign rum.

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taxes are placed on printed paper such as newspapers, documents, and playing cards. Increased revenues to meet the costs of defending the enlarged British Empire

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taxes on colonial imports such as tea, or glass.

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The soldiers were charged with murder and were given a civilian trial, in which John Adams conducted a successful defense.

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It was an act of protest in which a group of 60 American colonists threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to agitate against a tax on tea.

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Protesting both a tax on tea and the perceived monopoly and tossed into the harbor. Led by Sons of Liberty.

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In retaliation for colonial resistance to British rule during the winter. Massachusetts Government Act, Administration of Justice Act, and Quartering Act.

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1774: First Continental Congress convenes

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1774: First Continental Congress convenes

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Called by the Committees of Corresponding in response to the Intolerable Acts, the First Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia. Fifty-six delegates represented all the colonies except Georgia.

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Allowed British troops to be housed in private homes and facilities

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A meeting where delegates from the thirteen colonies that united in support of the American Revolution and its associated Revolutionary War.

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Battles of Lexington and Concord confirmed the alienation between the majority of colonists and the mother country.

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the colonial conflict with the British still looked like a Civil War, not a war aiming to separate nations; however, the publication of Thomas Paine’s irreverent pamphlet Common Sense abruptly put independence on the agenda.

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After the Congress recommended that colonies form their own governments, the Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson and revised in committee.

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Moving south from Canada in the summer of 1777, a British force under Gen. John Burgoyne captured Fort Ticonderoga (July 5) before losing decisively at Bennington, Vermont (August 16), and Bemis Heights, New York (October 7). His forces depleted, and Burgoyne surrendered at Saratoga.

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Lord Cornwallis entered Virginia to join other British forces there, setting up a base at Yorktown. Washington’s army and a force under the French Count de Rochambeau placed Yorktown under siege, and Cornwallis surrendered his army of more than 7,000 men.