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The act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards. It was a direct tax imposed by the British government without the approval of the colonial legislatures and was payable in hard-to-obtain British sterling, rather than colonial currency.

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The Declaratory Act, passed by Parliament on the same day the Stamp Act was repealed, stated that Parliament could make laws binding the American colonies "in all cases whatsoever."
George III approved Parliament's passage of the Declaratory Act. As it "was to stifle all differences by the establishment of an undeniable principle" that Parliament had the constitutional power to legislate for the colonies. It reasserts its right/power to make laws in the colonies.

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The Tea Act was imposed on the colonists by the  British government which lead up to the American Revolutionary War The act bailed out the  East India Company, a huge deal and company that held certain things to together. It is compared to a company like amazon.com the way it employed so many people and how many people reply on it. This made it a big deal due to colonists boarding East India Company ships and dumped their loads of tea overboard. This made the British government make more and more rules trying to control the colonists from acting this way.

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Tax passed to raise revenue to pay off debt from the French and Indian War. A stamp had to be attached to all paper goods sold in the colonies. Further, those accused of violating the Stamp Act could be prosecuted in Vice-Admiralty Courts, which had no juries and could be held anywhere in the British Empire.

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A street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770 between the civilians and the soldiers. It was said that the civilians were throwing snowballs and swinging clubs at the soldiers which triggered the shoots of soldiers killing multiple civilians. Then the soldiers and civilians went to court, where the soldiers were found not guilty and seen to be defending themselves.

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To help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.
In 1767, as the Act went into effect, the people's response to the new taxes was to discourage the purchase of British imports.

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The first shots of what would become the war for American independence were fired in April 1775.
General Thomas Gage, commander of British forces around Boston, had been cautious; he did not wish to provoke the Americans. Gage received orders to arrest several patriot leaders, rumored to be around Lexington. Gage sent his troops out on the night of April 18, hoping to catch the colonists by surprise and thus to avoid bloodshed. When the British arrived in Lexington, however, colonial militia awaited them. A fire fight soon ensued.

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American colonists frustrated at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation”. In response they dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by East India Company which was the first  act of rebellion to British from the colonists. It showed Great Britain that Americans would not tolerate taxation, and they stood for what they believed in and didn't let Britain rule over them.

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In the American Revolution, the British and American armies get spied to see each others intentions and ideas moving on with the war these spies made it possible for each side to see within each other and prepare for the warfare that occurred within the battle.British commanders found information that was gathered by loyalist part of this was details of the geography which massively helped the British army.

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This treaty, signed on September 3, 1783, between the American colonies and Great Britain, ended the American Revolution and formally recognized the United States as an independent nation.

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The American War for Independence was actually a world conflict, involving not only the United States and Great Britain, but also France, Spain, and the Netherlands. The peace process brought a nascent United States into the arena of international diplomacy, playing against the largest and most established powers on earth.

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The three American negotiators – John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and John Jay – proved themselves ready for the world stage, achieving many of the objectives sought by the new United States. Two crucial provisions of the treaty were British recognition of U.S. independence and the delineation of boundaries that would allow for American western expansion.

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