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It was a seven year war, for Spain and Great Britian. It ended by the singing of treaties.
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It was a seven year war, for Spain and Great Britian. It ended by the singing of treaties.
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to try to secure the support and cooperation of the Iroquois in fighting the French, also to form a colonial alliance based on a design by Benjamin Franklin.
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It was the first finance ammenment to defence the collonies. The Collonies did not like this act so they stopped buying goods from the british and then the government loses money, so they do what the collonies want because the collonies is where they get their money from.
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This was the way they repayed to the british by buying their supplies.But the new york people said that they would not do that, that is was not important to imply.
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When they start to take some of the taxes off for the goods for the collonies. But parliment says you have to use stamped paper and have a tax on it to make more money but the people from the collonies do not want to pay a tax so they go against it and boycott and not buy anything from them which makes them loose money.
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When congress responds to parliments act or organized protest
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This was the refusal of the stamp act saying they will no longer pass it from what the people in the colony did because of it.
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When 9 out of the 13 colonies decide that the stamp act is unconsitutional because it was just taxted to them and they had no say about it, therefore they had not choice which is unconsitutional.
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Parliament finalises the repeal of the Stamp Act, but declares that it has the right to tax colonies
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Taxes on tea, glass, lead, paper and paint to help pay for the administration of the colonies. That are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. John Dickinson publishes the Letter from a Philadelphian Farmer in protest. Colonial assemblies condemn taxation without representation
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The poloitical unrest
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Angered by the presence of troops and Britain's colonial policy, a crowd began harassing a group of soldiers guarding the customs house; a soldier was knocked down by a snowball and discharged his musket, sparking a volley into the crowd which kills five civilians.
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The revenue schooner Gaspee ran aground by Providence Rhode Island and was burnt by local people mad about the enforcement of trade legislation.
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In an effort to support the ailing East India Company, Parliament exempted its tea from import duties and allowed the Company to sell its tea directly to the colonies. Americans resented what they saw as an indirect tax subsidising a British company.
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In these letters, Hutchinson, the Massachusetts governor, advocated a 'great restraint of natural liberty', convincing many colonists of a planned British clamp-down on their freedoms
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Mad about the Tea Acts, American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians dump £9,000 of East India Company tea into the Boston harbour.
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Four measures which stripped Massachusetts of self-government and judicial independence following the Boston Tea Party. The colonies responded with a general boycott of British goods.
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Colonial delegates meet to organise opposition to the Intolerable Acts.
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First engagements of the Revolutionary War between British troops and the Minutemen, who had been warned of the attack by Paul Revere