U.S. History - 04

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From the 1760s, the American colons started to feel that the British authorities did not give them all their , especially that the colons paid but did not elect Members of Parliament. They denounced this as “ without ”.
In 1773, a group of American settlers dumped (jeter) a cargo of tea from a British ship into the Boston harbor, to against British taxes. This is known as the .
1775: Beginning of the American Revolutionary War or American War of . American revolutionaries started to oppose armed resistance to the British governors.
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