"For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us.
-from The Declaration of Independence
This line of was included in The Declaration of Independence because Parliament had previously punished the colonists for
A throwing over 300 chests of tea into Boston Harbor
4x
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B
4x D
the violence associated with the Boston Massacre
legislatures that had blocked the implementation of Royal decrees.
attacking British troops at Lexington and Concord