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Thomas Paine was an important writer during the American revolution.

Thomas Paine's writing contributed to more conflict by writing and publishing his opinion about things especially the British and their colonies, he also had his most famous pamphlet "Common sense" published in 1776 same year as the colonization of America.

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Samuel Adams had a second cousin which was John Adams, who was the Second president of the United States through 1797 to 1801. But before that he when against the British and which started protests the the 1760s. Later on in 1765-1774 he served in Massachusetts legislature he helped organize the, "committee of correspondence" which was an anti British act. In 1776 he was the first to call independence for American colonies for both continental colonies then years later was the person who signed the Declaration of Independence in 1797.

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Independence Hall, Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA

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The Second Continental Congress was a group of New England delegates who wanted to declare independence from England.

The Second Continental Congress contributed to more conflict because the colonists were organizing under military leader George Washington, and it showed they were preparing to go to war.

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The Battles at Lexington & Concord was a fight between British soldiers and colonists militia.

These battles contributed to further conflict because tension was already high between British and colonists because all the taxes and control that the colonists didn’t think was warranted. Militias were organized along with stores of guns.

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The Intolerable Acts were...

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The Boston Tea Party was...

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The Tea Act was...

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Tea Act, (1773), in British American colonial history, legislative maneuver by the British ministry of Lord North to make English tea marketable in America. A previous crisis had been averted in 1770 when all the Townshend Acts duties had been lifted except that on tea, which had been mainly supplied to the Colonies since then by Dutch smugglers. In an effort to help the financially troubled British East India Company sell 17,000,000 pounds of tea stored in England, the Tea Act rearranged excise regulations so that the company could pay the Townshend duty and still undersell its competitors. At the same time, the North administration hoped to reassert Parliament's right to levy direct revenue taxes on the Colonies.

The shipments became a symbol of taxation tyranny to the colonists, reopening the door to unknown future tax abuses. Colonial resistance culminated in the Boston Tea Party (December 1773), in which tea was dumped into the ocean, and in a similar action in New York (April 1774).

Chelsey Parrott-Sheffer.

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Tea Act, (1773), in British American colonial history, legislative maneuver by the British ministry of Lord North to make English tea marketable in America. A previous crisis had been averted in 1770 when all the Townshend Acts duties had been lifted except that on tea, which had been mainly

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Patrick Henry was...

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Thomas Paine was...

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Sam Adams was...

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The Boston Massacre was a fight between Bostonians and British soldiers because the Bostonians resented the soldiers for the taxes Britain put on them. The Bostonians aggravated the soldiers which caused them to open fire in the crowd, killing 5 people total.

The massacre and trial that followed contributed to further conflict because John Adams, a lawyer and patriot, believed the soldiers needed a fair trial, 6 of the soldiers were deemed innocent while 2 others were charged for manslaughter. This further angered Bostonians.

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The Quartering Acts were [there were versions of this law passed TWICE!]...

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The Townshend Acts was a tax limiting colonists resources such as china, lead, paint, paper, and tea. They did this because they knew colonists wouldn't be able to make these things.

The Townshend Acts contributed to more conflict because colonists weren't able to make these things that they needed by themselves which lead them to boycott British goods.

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The Stamp Act was a tax the parliament passed to raise money to support military operations in America.

The Stamp Act contributed to more conflict because it made people pay more for things that they used to pay less for because of taxes.

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The Sugar Act was a law passed by the parliament to control the use of Sugar.

The Sugar Act contributed to more conflict because it placed more strict enforcement on smuggling, which was something that was important to a lot of leaders.

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George III was the king of great Britain.

His leadership contributed to the eventual American split from England because he was blamed for being primarily responsible for all the acts that angered the colonists, like the stamp and sugar act.

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The Proclamation of 1763 came after the seven years war and was a rule forbidding colonists from settling past the boundary.

The Proclamation of 1763 contribute to more conflict because colonists argued against it.

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The Battle of Bunker Hill (or Breed's Hill) was...

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The Magna Carta is...a document for the people that gives them rights and doesn't let the king do whatever he wants.

The Magna Carta contributed to ideas about freedom because...the ideas went to the Americas and inspired the revolution. American laws were based on these ideas.