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The French and Indian War was caused by disputed land, particularly the Ohio River Valley that was rich in resources. -
British government restricts the American colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains in an attempt to ease tensions between the colonists and the Native Americans. -
British to control economic activity in the American colonies by limiting what sugar products could buy and sell. -
required colonists to purchase stamps for all official paper publications, including letters, newspapers, and magazines. -
it began as a street brawl between American colonists and a lone British soldier, but quickly escalated to a chaotic, bloody slaughter -
colonists were only allowed to purchase tea from the British-owned East India Trading Company which directly impacted the colonial merchants. -
Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation -
The British government was in direct response to the Boston Tea Party. The purpose was to punish the colonist. The acts closed the Boston Harbor and limited colonial town meetings. -
the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
the Continental Congress adopts the Olive Branch Petition, written by John Dickinson, which appeals directly to King George III -
American Colonists and the British Soldier, Americans were protesting cause the British were taxing Americans for no reason until one British Soldier hit one of the Americans.