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A war that lasted nine years and was fought between France and Great Britain in order to determine control of the colonial territory of North America.
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Act passed by the British Parliament in order to help pay for British troops stationed in the colonies during the Seven Years' War. -
In order to help pay for the expenses involved in governing the American colonies, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts. This initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
A group of seven British soldiers fired their guns into a crowd of protesting citizens, which ended up killing five, wounding six, and angering the whole colony. -
Protest from American Patriots disgused as Mohawk Indians who threw 342 crates of tea into the Boston Harbor because of the tax on tea. -
A series of four laws passed by the British Parliament in order to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
Delegates from each of the 13 colonies except for Georgia that met in Philadelphia which was meant to set terms for a boycott.