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French and Native Americans fight colonists for land occupation -
a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide -
England goes into debt but wins war -
British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses -
The act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards. -
constituted an attempt by the British government to consolidate fiscal and political power over the American colonies by placing import taxes on many of the British products bought by Americans -
A confrontation in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. -
A protest where colonists dumped around 300 crates of tea into the ocean. -
A set of laws meant to punish colonists for what happened at the Boston Tea Party. -
The first war of the American Revolution. It took place in the Massachusetts towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge.