Loida Garrido's List: WAR OF INDEPENDENCE

• began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen British colonies in North America, and ended in a global war between several European great powers.
• the Stamp Act of 1765, imposed by Parliament of Great Britain, was unconstitutional.
• The colonists claimed that, as they were British subjects, taxation without representation was illegal

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• The colonists   responded with a coordinated refusal to import British goods. British   troops sent to Boston   to enforce the duties only added to the tensions
• Parliament reaffirmed the tax on tea and passed   a Tea Act designed to help the British East India Company compete   with smuggled tea
• Parliament responded to the "Boston Tea   Party" with the Coercive Acts (called by the colonists the   "Intolerable Acts"), which closed the port of Boston and   changed the form of government in Massachusetts to enhance the Crown's   power

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