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The French and Indian War was when American Indians were fighting to maintain control of their land and their culture. -
The Stamp Act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards. -
To help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
The Boston Massacre was a street fight where several colonists were killed. -
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts. -
The Intolerable Acts in the American colonies were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.