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What is the story of the American Revolution?
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How our country came to be.
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What is a revolution?
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When people fight to replace one government with another.
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How many colonies where in America by 1760?
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13 colonies
Massachusetts was one of the colonies.
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Why did the British need money?
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1. To pay for wars they fought.
2. To pay soldiers sent to America
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Why did British soldiers go to America?
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To protect the colonists from the Native Americans
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Why did the British fight wars?
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To gain control of more land in the "New World"
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Why did the Brtish tax the colonists?
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To raise money.
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What is a tax?
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Money people pay to the government.
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What types of items were taxed?
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Sugar, molasses.
(colonists used these items every day)
Paper, paint and tea were also taxed
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Why did the colonists think the taxes were unfair?
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It cost a lot of money. They did not think that laws should be passed in England without a vote. They had no say in what laws were passed in England.
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Were the colonists allowed to vote in Engalnd?
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No they were not allowed to send representatives to the British parliament(government meetings)
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What is the Stamp Act?
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It said that certain papers the colonists used had to have special stamps on them. The colonists had to pay for them.
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What items needed stamps?
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Letter, newspapers, playing cards.
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Where does "No taxation without representation" come from?
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The colonists thought they should be allowed to vote on the laws passed in England.
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What did the colonists do about the taxes?
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1. wrote letters about how unfair they were.
2. they did not pay the stamp act.
3.Stopped buying British goods(tea, sugar, cloth)
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