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American revolution
American revolution
the patriots
Representatives from the 13 colonies, except Georgia, met for what became the first Continental Congress. They came togetheroppose British policies that restricted their rights and taxed them without representation in Parliament
The American Revolution was the war between the thirteen colonies and British mercantilism.
The thirteen colonies were British.
The Stamp Act of 1765 was argued to be a tax without representation since the British colonies had no representatives in the British Parliament.
The Stamp Act of 1765 was argued to be a tax without representation since the British colonies had no representatives in the British Parliament.
The Declaration of Independence is the document that was approved by representatives of the American colonies in 1776 that stated their grievances against the British monarch and declared their independence.
The Albany Congress (1754), also known as, "The Conference of Albany" was a meeting of representatives sent by the legislatures of the northern seven of the thirteen British North American colonies (specifically, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island).
Definition of Declaration of Independence:A document declaring the US to be independent of the British Crown, signed on July 4, 1776, by the congressional representatives of the Thirteen Colonies, including Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams ~Hope this helped =D
The colonists felt that the British government had no right to tax them because there were not any representatives of the colonies in the British Parliament. The colonies had no say in how much the taxes should be or what they should pay for. They didn't think this was fair.