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Tea/Stamp/Sugar act
* The colonists protested
* King George repeals all taxes except the tea tax
* The sugar act was quickly repealed after the anger and violenceBoston Massacre
* It started with a small argument with British private Hugh White and a few colonists, but quickly began to escalate as more colonists came and they started to harass private White.
* while under attack at a mob British soldiers shot and killed 5 colonists
* There was also a total of 6 non-fatal injuriesThe Boston Tea Party
* It was a political and mercantile protest
* The colonists did this due to the remaining tea tax that King George has enforced
* around 92,000 pounds of tea was dumped into the harborFirst Continental Congress
* Was held from Sep 5. to October 26, and 12 out of the 13 colonies had met
* Georgia was the only colony without a delegate present
* This meeting was to discuss the acts/taxes that the British were enforcingCommon Sense
*Was written by Thomas Paine to advocate independence from Great Britain to the colonists
*Nearly 120,000 copies were going around the colonies by April of that year
* This is a major event that sparked the writing of the Declaration of IndependenceDeclaration of Independence was signed
* The United States Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House
* All men have equal rights and the God-given rights is to be safeguarded that is, the rights of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. Is one of the major points of the document
* Thomas Jefferson was the principal author of the documentПериоды
The French and Indian War
* England wins the war
* England in major debt
* The war provided Great Britain with a great territorial gain in North AmericaColonists where heavily taxed
*The tax was raised from 8 pence per head to 20 pence per year
*Out of rage and anger the colonists would tar and feather British soldiers and agents
*The taxes were put on them due to the expenses of the French and Indian war
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