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The American Revolution was a conflict between the thirteen British colonies, and it's mother country, Great Britain. In late spring and early summer of seventeen seventy-six, after more than a year of fighting, the Second Continental Congress debated whether to declare independence or not. The reasons which impelled them to do so are outlined in the Declaration of Independence, and can be consi ....
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.... by the Stamp Act and Quartering Act of 1765. The Stamp Act was intended to generate revenues that would help pay for the cost of maintaining a permanent force of British troops in the American colonies. The colonist were required to buy and place stamps on all official documents, including deeds, mortgages, newspapers, and pamphlets in order to be deemed legal. Both taxes flourished resentment among the colonials. They believed the British government h ....
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