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England looked at the colonies as a source of money and then the English all got a search warrant to search the colonist houses.

colonist and Boston lawyer weren't sure that they liked the

warrants they argued how they violated the individual rights

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Parliament taxed sugar so they could pay off the war debt and to help pay for the expenses of running the colonies. This also increased the duties, or taxes, on important items

Boston started to boycott English goods.

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Parliament passed the Stamp Act. printed materials were taxed just like newspapers, pamphlets, bills, legal documents, licenses, almanacs, dice and playing cards. money collected from the tax went to England

In July, a secret group of colonists called the Sons of Liberty formed in towns. They opposed to the Stamp Act they used violence and intimidation to force all of the English stamp agents to resign. They also stopped many colonists from ordering English goods.

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England passed the Townshend Revenue Act. This act taxed many items imported into the colonies, such as paper, tea, glass, lead and paints.

during the boycott colonists refused to purchase items

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Samuel Adams from Massachusetts wrote a letter against taxation stating  it is unfair to tax someone without giving them representation in government then he sent the letter to the other colonies so he can make them boycott items

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This event occurred when a large crowd of colonists crowded around and harassed English soldiers. soldiers fired their guns into the crowd killing five people and injuring six.

After the incident, the troops are withdrawn out of Boston. The same day they take tax off of everything except for tea.after a group of colonists board English ships in Boston, and dump hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor.

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the Boston Tea Party, passed a series of laws The first of the acts closed the port of Boston until all the damage caused by the Tea Party is paid back. English also put Massachusetts under military rule and more troops arrived in the colony.fifth and final act, Parliament gave land claimed by Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Virginia to Canada.

Every colony, except Georgia, sent representatives. Congress declared to boycott English import

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After the battle, the Second Continental Congress sent a petition to King George asking him to reach an agreement with the colonists to The King but the king refused to read the petition. Instead King George proclaimed that the colonists were rebelling and he ordered troops to end the rebellion.

Paul Revere rode from Boston to warn colonists that English troops were coming to take weapons away from the colonists. The following day, on April 19, both sides begin fighting at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts.

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Thomas Paine published Common Sense. The 50-page pamphlet criticized King George and argued for colonial independence. In April, the Continental Congress.

On June 7, Richard Henry Lee, from Virginia, presented a formal plan calling for the colonies to declare its independence from England. On June 11, Congress created a committee to draft a declaration of independence.

Thomas Jefferson is chosen by the committee to prepare the first draft of the declaration, which he completed in one day. On June 28, Jefferson's Declaration of Independence is presented to the Congress. On July 4, the Congress formally supported Jefferson's Declaration, with copies sent to all of the colonies