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This was the first battle of the American Revolution. The British came to the colonies to seize weapons from Boston or nearby Concord. Paul Revere came saying most famously"The British are coming

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There were 9 shopkeepers and artisans who were against the Stamp Act. The organization grew and soon the society had members from all 13 colonies. They battled the Stamp Act in 1765.

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The Townshend act enforced by Britain was a catalyst to the Gaspee Affair. In this affair colonists boarded the Gaspee,  a ship that was an armed British schooner that ran off the coast of Rhode Island. The colonists then wounded the commander and set the ship on fire

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The act was enforced to raise money from the colonists in America to help the sinking British East India Company. The company had a monopoly on the importation and sale of tea in the colonies.

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American colonists disguised as Native Americans dumped a large amount of tea that belonged to the British East India Company into the Boston Harbor. This event occurred because of the Townsend Acts and the Intolerable Acts followed.

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This was a series of 4 things enacted by the British to establish new supervision of the territory given to Britain after the French and Indian War. After the Boston Tea Party of 1773 the British closed that major part until the money was paid back. Some acts were for justice of British officials. Lastly the fourth acts had British troops sleeping in American colonists homes.

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This was a series of 4 acts enacted by the British in an effort to regain and assert royal authority into the colonies. The acts threatened the colonists' self governed way of life.

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This act was declared by the British Parliament. This occurred with the repeal of the Stamp act of 1765. This was a declaration that the authority in America was the same as the authority in Great Britain. This act was a message to the colonies the Britain was still the legislature and ruling head.

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The British enacted this act so they could get revenue from the colonists because Britain was now in debt thanks to the French and Indian War.

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The act set a tax on sugar and molasses being imported into the colonies which deeply affected the middle colonies who produced rum . This also was enacted to regulate trade to non British traders from the colonies.

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The colonial legislatures met in New York to make an action plan for the colonists on what to do about their tax situation. This was the first time unity had occurred between the colonists legislatures.

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British troops had been occupying Massachusetts, when protesters attacked a British officer. The officer and other soldiers fired into the crowd killing 3 colonists and wounding severely 2.

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This congress met in response to Britain's tighter control on the colonies such as placing military in Massachusetts. Also the Congress was called to consider uniting against the British

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This proclamation followed the French and Indian war in which the colonists took over French land. The proclamation stated that colonists were not supposed to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains for any reason at all.