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a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes. -
an act of the British Parliament that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. -
initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
nine British soldiers shot several of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles. -
an act of protest in which a group of 60 American colonists threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to agitate against both a tax on tea and the perceived monopoly of the East India Company. -
a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.