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were a series of laws that restricted the use of foreign ships for trade between every country except Britain. This ended 200 years later.
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The French and Indian War was the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War. The war was fought between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military...
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was passed by the British parliament to affirm its power to legislate for the colonies “in all cases whatsoever”.
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known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others.
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(initially referred to by John Adams as "the Destruction of the Tea in Boston") was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston
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were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party.
They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor.
