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War fought between Great Britain and its 2 enemies, the French and the Indians of North America. Most battles were in Canada. The british won the war and won the right to keep Canada and other possesion in the New World.
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A law passed saying colonial settlers couldn't settle West of the Apalachin Mountains. Colonists were mad
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1764 Act that put a 3 cent tax on foreign refined sugar and increased taxes on coffee, indigo, and wine. These taxes affected only a certain part of the population
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Required colonists to attach expensive stamps to all nerspaper and legal documents. In response to this the colonies formed the stamp act congress, representatives of each colony assembled a constituion and sent it to King George III. As a result parliament repealed the stamp act.
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Series of laws named for Charles Townshend, British Trescarer. Placed new taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. Colonists were mad.
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A shooting of 5 American colonists.
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Angry American colonsts dumped 342 crates of British tea into Boston Harbor.
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A meeting between delegates that demanded that the colonists rights be restored.
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Battle between British and Colonial soldiers, became the first battles of the Revolutionary War.
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Document that argued that the British governement didn't look after the interests of the colonists.
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Wrote pamphlets, "Common Sense" and "The Crisis" and furthered the Revolutionary cause.