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No colonial settlement was allowed west of the Appalachain Mountians. Colonists then moved west and violated the proclamation line.
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Cut the tax in half on foreign molasses so that colonists would stop smuggling. Colonists then continued to smuggle molasses into the colonies.
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Colonists had to purchase stamped paper for any newspaper, document, license, etc. Colonists harassed custom workers and stamp agents
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Parliament repealed the stamp act, but issued the Townshend act
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Started with colonists hurling ice at soldiers, turned into a riot, then the soldiers fired on the colonists. Colonists presented this event as a British attack on unarmed colonists.
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The British created heavy taxes on tea, and banned non-British tea from being traded in the colonies.
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The colonists protested the tea act by dumping boxes of British tea into the Boston harbor.
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Parliament responded to the Boston tea party by imposing martial law, shutting down the Boston harbor, and appointing Thomas Gage the governor of Massachusetts
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The colonists had their first military battle against the British
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The Colonists officially declared their independence from Britain.
