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tax requiring stamps on all legal papers, newspapers, and playing cards -
was the North American theater of the global Seven Years' War, in which Great Britain defeated France and its Indigenous allies for control of the continent. Fought over territorial disputes in the Ohio River Valley, the British victory secured Canada and land east of the Mississippi, drastically increasing British debt and leading to policies that triggered the American Revolution. -
economic policy England followed when it came to the 13 colonies. England saw the colonies as a market for English goods wanted to get money -
approach by Great Britain; British policy of loosely enforcing laws and regulations in the American colonies, allowing them to govern themselves. -
Townshend Acts imposed duties on imported glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea in the American colonies -
Amid tense relations between the civilians and the soldiers, a mob formed around a British sentry and verbally abused him. -
where American colonists, disguised as Native Americans, dumped British tea into Boston Harbor to oppose the Tea -
They aimed to reduce military costs after the French and Indian War and assert authority.