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to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government.
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prohibited American colonists from settling west of Appalachia.
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pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France, each side supported by military units.
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was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain
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a name given to two or more Acts of British Parliament requiring local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with housing and food.
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was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London.
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a series of British acts of Parliament passed during 1767 and 1768 relating to the British colonies in America.
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British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston.
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The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston
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was comprised of delegates from the colonies, met in 1774 in reaction to the Coercive Acts
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The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British to the detriment of colonial goods.
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The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.