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laws passed by England so they could control colonial trade. the act made coloniast trade with other countries
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the document that ended the war between Britain and France over the Ohio river valley.this tready ended french power in north america and expanded british power
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the french had left the Ohio river valley but the Indians where not happy. They later on attacked the British who were on their way to their families and homes.
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The British thought they were not getting enough money form the French and Indian war so they started taxing things like wills, diplomas, newspapers, Contracts, letters, and playing cards
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the people started putting "No taxation without representation" on their newspapers and formed a secret society to oppose the British
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The British wanted to make sure that the secret society did not meet so they sent over 10,000 soldiers over to the colonies and made the colonial house them
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colonist would smuggle stuff so that they did not have to pay the taxes so the British had a act to where they could search peoples houses for the smuggled goods.
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The British see how the colonist react to the stamp act. So they repeal the act 1 year later but pass the Declaratory act in 1766.
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The colonist protested this townshend act because they believed that they should not have to pay tax
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the king started to tax the people before they got there stuff so when the colonist found out they got angry again.
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When the soldiers got there the people started saying stuff like "fire i dare you" and then one of the soldiers was hit and the head and shot
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a single British soldier was protecting a British costume location and a mob came up to him and started yelling so the guard.
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when the soldier fired the rest of the soldiers also fired killing one person on the spot
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later on about 4 other people who were injured died and the British soldiers were put on trial for murder but was not sent to jail because the colonist were attacking them.
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Voting to ban all trade until intolerable acts were repealed
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All the colonies except for Georgia meet in Philadelphia in 1774. They voted to ban any trade with Britain until the Intolerable acts were repealed.
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the minutemen where warned about the British coming and they where ready in the field. 70 men waited for the British while about 200 or 100 British where coming to them.
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They sent a petition to the king
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the colonist tried to reason with the king so that there would not be a war but the king rejected their offer and sent 30,000 German mercenaries and more British soldiers
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in 1788 soldiers were ordered to protect and support crown-appointed colonial officials attempting to enforce unpopular British government laws and texes
