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During the French/Indian War the Ohio River valley land brought conflict w/the British colonies and had led the official British declaration of war in 1756. In 1757 William Pitt(British Leader) paid Prussia to fight Europe and raise troop for North America. The war officially begun in 1754 and ended in 1763 with the Treaty of Paris. (History Channel) -
In 1763 the British produced a boundary at the Appalachian Mountains in the Eastern continental. It made it illegal for American colonist to live west of the Appalachian. -
British government passed a law that taxed any legal document or paper forms. Every single paper that the colonists used was taxed by the British. -
Great Britain made a law saying that American colonist were responsible for housing British soldiers. If there were more soldiers than homes then they could be housed at an Inn or barn. -
An act passed to help pay for the expenses of governing the American colonies. It was a tax on "glass, lead, paint, paper and tea. (Library of Congress). -
On March 5, 1770, a street fight between a patriot mob and British soldiers. "British sentries guarding the Boston Customs House shot into a crowd of civilians, killing 3 men and injuring 8, two of them mortally". (Library of Congress) -
"granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies." (Bostonteapartyship.com) -
American colonist (Sons of Liberty) dressed up as Indians dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor. They did it to protest taxation without representation. ( -
Also known as the Coercive Acts, "a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party." (mountvernon.org) -
It has been described as the famous shot heard around the world. "Marked the start of the American War of Independence". (National Army Museum.com)