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War fought between Great Britain and its two enemies, the French and the Indians of North America.
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Colonial settlers were forbidden to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains without permission from British government.
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Act that put a three-cent tax on foreign refined sugar and increased taxes on coffee, indigo, and certain kinds of wine.
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First direct British tax on American colonists. Every newspaper, pamphlet, and other public and legal document had to have a Stamp, or British seal, on it.
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Required the colonist to provide barracks and supplies to British troops.
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Shooting of five American colonists by British troops.
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Angry and frustrated at a new tax on tea, American colonists calling themselves the Sons of Liberty and disguised as Mohawk Native Americans boarded three British ships and dumped 342 whole crates of British tea into Boston harbor.
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Meant to punish the Massachusetts colonist for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipments into the Boston Harbor.
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First shots fired between American and British troops. The British chose to march to Concord because it was an arms depot. This meant that the Americans had stockpiled weapons there.
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Declared freedom of the 13 colonies from Great Britain.