The Boston Tea Party
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"Boston Harbor, a teapot tonight. The Mohawks come" (The Coming of the Revolution). On Thursday, December 16, 1773, took place. This act was one of the causes for the start of the Revolutionary War. came about because the Patriots of the Colonies would not stand for the unjust taxation's brou ....
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.... into effect in 1765. The Stamp Act was a direct tax on all the newspapers printed in the colonies and on most commercial and legal documents used in business. These two Acts alone provided about half of the funding needed to support the British Army. The Stamp Act caused much controversy amongst the colonists and the Stamp Act congress of 1765 said the colonists could not be taxed without their consent. The Stamp Act was repealed in 1776 and the Parliament also declared that England had ful ....
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