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The French in Canada began building forts on lands in the Ohio Rivier Valley claimed by both France and Britain.
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After the French and Indian War, French Canada became a British colony.
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The British King ordered that the colonists were to stop settling the western land just won from France.
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Parliment passed a law that came to be known as the Sugar Act. This law said the colonists must pay tax on many goods coming to the colonies from other places.
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People held a meeting in New York City called the Stamp Act Congress. They discussed the problems that the new tax laws had caused.
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A crowd gathered near several British soldiers. Some in the crowd shouted insults at the soldiers and began to throw rocks ans snowballs.