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War Between French and Indians. The British won the war and the right to keep Canada and several other places in the New World.
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3 cent tax on sugar and increased taxes on coffee, indigo, and certain kinds of wine
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He was an outspoken critic of the Stamp Act and introduced seven resolutions against it to the Virginia House
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First direct British tax on American colonists. Newspaper, pamphlet, and other public and legal document had to have a Stamp, or British seal, on it
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The colonists didn't think they should have to pay for something they had been doing for free for many years, and they responded in force, with demonstrations and even with a diplomatic body called the Stamp Act Congress
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These laws placed new taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea.
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Shooting of five American colonists by British troops on March 5, 1770. One person, an African-American man named Crispus Attacks, was killed
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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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Two groups of people from all over the 13 Colonies who came together to discuss liberty.
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The Rides of Paul Revere and William Dawes