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The French and Indian war A.K.A the 7 years war, was a war between France and England. because of the French and indian war, England was in debt., so England taxed the people in the 13 colonies. -
Passed by Parliament, stating that Parliment could make law binding the americans "what so ever" -
A tax on anything on paper. -
helped pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies, which imposed taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea -
began as a street brawl between American colonists and a lone British soldier, but quickly escalated to a chaotic, bloody slaughter. (over dramatic) -
American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. -
The Coercive A.K.A Intolerable Acts in the American colonies, were four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party -
Forced American people to house british soldiers -
the famous 'shot heard 'round the world', marked the start of the American Revolution -
to plan further responses if the British government did not repeal -
a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775 -
summarized the colonists' motivations for seeking independence.