... Empire to pay off its war debts, the British imposing more and more regulations on the colonies, to the ever diminishing, self-governance of the colonies. Over time, these factors pushed the colonies to declare themselves independent from Great Britain, and to fight for their freedom from them ... to where they were to be appointed by the king, taking away the colonists right to elect their own officials. As a direct result of the coercive acts, or as they quickly became known, the intolerable acts, the colonists formed the First Continental Congress. This assembly did not ... to them....

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... they had not improved their relations in North America, where their colonies laid side by side. Though this originally began in 1690 with the massacre of colonists in New York by the French and Indians. Within a seventy-year span, four colonial wars were fought, the King William's War, Queen ... future. Then the Revolutionary War began on April 19, 1775. It started with the first "shots heard all around the world" at the Battle of Lexington and Concord. After this battle, Congress met a second time in Philadelphia. This was known as the Second Continental Congress. They met on May ... th...

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• Grade Level: High School

... they had not improved their relations in North America, where their colonies laid side by side. Though this originally began in 1690 with the massacre of colonists in New York by the French and Indians. Within a seventy-year span, four colonial wars were fought, the King William's War, Queen ... future. Then the Revolutionary War began on April 19, 1775. It started with the first "shots heard all around the world" at the Battle of Lexington and Concord. After this battle, Congress met a second time in Philadelphia. This was known as the Second Continental Congress. They met on May ... th...

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• Grade Level: High School

... Hancock's main goal while in the Provincial Congress was to promote the patriot cause, and defeat the dictatorship that was England. During the time Hancock was President of the Provincial Congress, he was elected into the Second Continental Congress in 1775. Hancock was elected as president due to his involvement with colonial cause up until this ... when bad health caused a resignation. With Hancock's great wealth, and Sam Adams" great leadership, the duo became unstoppable. Hancock was able to fund the actions of the Son's of Liberty, and Adams was able to lead them to victory. With t...

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• Grade Level: High School