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The very first Commitee of Corrspondence was formed in Boston. All of them led up to the first and second contential congress, which started in 1774.
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Captain William Smith, an American, was captured by what he believed to be Norfolk assailants and was a victim of the tar and feathers. Afterwards, he was embarrasingly carted through American towns. Soon after he was cast into the sea and saved by a passing ship.
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The Boston Massacre was the killing of 5 American men by British soliders. It started when a barbers apprentice shouted an insult to one of the soliders. Next, the solider came up and knock the boy in the ear with his rifle. The boy cried for help and eventually returned with a group of angered towns people. The mob pelted ice and snowballs at the soliders and the soliders fired there guns killing 5 men and wounding 6 others.
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While chasing a merchant ships which the Gaspee thought to have been smuggling illegal goods, the Gaspeeran into a bay near Providence named Narragansett Bay. During the next night, a group of British men got onto the Gaspee, wounded the captain, and set it on fire.The group was being led by a wealthy merchant named John Brown.
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Designed basically to boost up the East Indian Tea company, which had 18,000,000 pounds of unsold tea. The tea was being shipped to different colonies and were going to be sold for bargains.
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A grant given to the East Indian company allowing them to sell there tea to colonists for cheap prices.
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Bills that stated that certain things were/ were not able to be done for the places they were written for.
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An act created for greater rights and weakth for the French. Controlled by the British after the Paris Treaty.
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Paul Revere was sent to Massachusetts to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that the British army were marching that way.
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he first shot, from Lexington, Masachusetts, indicting the war had begun.
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Written by John Hancock. He replaced some of the first contentials with new one such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson.
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Thomas Paine published the book to many colonies and it was almost automatically a best seller.It is even one of the best pamphlets in the English language.
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Captain William Smith, an American, was captured by what he believed to be Norfolk assailants and was a victim of the tar and feathers. Afterwards, he was embarrasingly carted through American towns. Soon after he was cast into the sea and saved by a passing ship.
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Richard Henry Lee brought the constitution to the congress for it to be signed for the independence from Britian.
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