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issued by King George lll after the Treaty of Paris formally ended the 7 Years War and gave French land in North America to the British. It helped unite the colonists with a shared sense of hate for the new British policy. It also divided the colonies and Great Britain for not letting people settle in the area over the Appalachian mountains. -
In 1765 the British parliament passed a tax on the British colonies known as the Stamp Act. The purpose of the Stamp Act was to pay for the British troops that were in America after the French Indian War. -
The series of measurements that were put on American citizens that taxed all goods imported to the colonies. The British sent more troops to enforce the new laws that damaged the relationship even more -
The Boston Massacre is where 9 red coats were being harassed heckled and had items thrown at them and they fired or the large crowd that was a few hundred people. In the end, they killed 3, injured 8, and mortally wounded 2. This was one of the largest reasons for the American people to start the revolution. -
The Boston Tea Party in when citizens raided the ships of the British at night and dumped as much tea as the could in the harbor. They did this to show their hate for the taxes they had to pay on the Tea Act in the year 1773 -
it was a series of 4 laws that were passed in retaliation for the Boston Tea Party. The laws were 1) Boston port bill. 2) Massachusetts government act. 3) Administration of Justice Act. 4) and the Quartering act. -
for most of the month during October 1774, delegates for 12 of the 13 states discussed the future of the country with the growing British aggression.