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The British were in a massive debt so they taxed the colonists. This as you may know did NOT make them happier. And instead it made them more mad at the British.
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The Stamp Act was an act to over tax the colonists to pay of their massive debt from the French and Indian War.
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The Sugar Act was a tax sent out from the British Parliament which lowered the tax on molasses that had been imported.
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The Quartering Act was an act against the British Parliament's law to take in the soldiers and take care of them.
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The Townshend Act was an act that was based towards trying to successfully tax the colonists to pay of the massive debt the Parliament had.
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The Boston Massacre was a mass killing in Boston after the colonists boycotted the Townshend Act laws.
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This taxation was on Tea and the colonists ended up throwing a million dollars worth of tea into the harbor of Boston.
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The intolerable acts were acts that made it so that Boston's shipping port was shut down. The colonies then teamed up and boycotted all the British goods.
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The first continental congress was founded in Philadelphia with 50 people from 12 of the 13 colonies because Georgia needed Britain on their side for their fight against the Indians.