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People from different colonies get together to send respectful messages to the king.

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They formed this group to present their complaints to King George III.

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This group was put together in September 1774. They would try to figure out ways to present their problems to the king.

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The colonist decided to rebel against the British laws. That's what led to them throwing the tea into the sea

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The colonist were tired of the parliament forcing taxes on everything and not having a say in it.

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On December 16th, 1773 a group of colonist called the Sons of Liberty dressed as Indians and board three ships filled with tea. Through out that night they dumped 90,000 pounds of tea into the sea.

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This British Tea Company a monopoly.The colonist got very mad. Even though it mad tea cheaper they did not like being told which tea to buy. This led to the Boston Tea Party.

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The Parliament put this act into place because the colonist would not buy tea from British companies. Almost leading the company out of business.

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This act was passed in 1773. The parliament passed it to help save and protect the British economy

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This tension caused a riot. The colonist threw rocks and ice balls at the redcoats. The redcoats told the colonist to go stop and leave. The colonist moved closer and knocked a redcoat to the ground. This caused the redcoats to start shooting.

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The colonist in Boston did not like the redcoats. They would call them "lobster backs" and make attacks bolder because they were not allowed to fire at them.

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This event happened on March 5th, 1770. There was a group of colonist throwing rocks and ice balls at redcoats which led to the redcoats shooting at the colonist. Causing 5 dead and 10 injured all colonist.

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Americans started the Committees of Corresponding. This committee would write letters, the letters would be passed from one to a person to another each adding comments to the writing.

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The British government used this as a way to tax the Americans.

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This law was passed in 1765. This law made colonist responsible for feeding and housing the troops from Britain. And everything the troops need the colonist would have to provide.

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Since the British wanted to put tax on their goods the colonist came up with what to do. They decided to boycott all British goods. And sent a letter to argue that the taxes violated the colonist rights.

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The Parliament put this law into place because they wanted to bring the colonist back into line and fix their "bad behavior".

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This act was passed in 1767. Placed tax on a few goods from Britain. Also placed tax on glass, paint, paper, tea.

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This law made colonist mad. They wouldn't mind paying taxes if they would have had a say in it. But since it was passed by the parliament they had no say.

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Great Britain needed more money to pay off debt from the French and Indian war. This law was also put into place after the Sugar Act because it was not making enough money.

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The Stamp Act was passed in 1765. It made colonist buy stamps and place them on all paper goods.

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This law made the colonist think of ways to not get taxed. The colonist started smuggling in goods and getting them secretly.

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Britain needed more money to send troops to the colonies. This also made Britain in force tax laws more strictly.

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This Act was passed in 1764. Britain need more income to paid for the troops to go to the colonies. The Parliament replaced the Molasses Act with the Sugar Act.

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This law made colonist very mad. Some people already were settled on the west. The colonist were also mad because the had no more room to farm in the colonies. So the British government sent 7,500 redcoats to America.

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This law was passed in 1763. The law made it illegal to settle west of the Appalachian mountains.

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The Parliament passed this law because there was deaths from colonist settling on the west causing conflict with the Natives.