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After the war someone needed to pay for all the costs of the war, so the government taxed the colonist. Although, they obviously because angry with this. -
The Proclamation of 1763 was followed after the Treaty of Paris which ended the 7 years of war and transferred French territory in North America to Great Britain. -
The Sugar Act reduced the rate of tax on molasses from six pence to three pence per gallon. -
It is an act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America. -
An act of the Parliament of Great Britain which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act. -
Parliament tried to assert its authority by passing legislation to tax goods that the Americans imported from Great Britain. The Americans then acted out by organizing a boycott of the British goods that were subject to taxation and then began harassing the British customs commissioners. -
A confrontation in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. -
A political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773. -
4 laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
Engagements of the Revolutionary War between British troops and the Minutemen who had been warned of the attack by Paul Revere. -
It was the first major battle of the War Of Independence. -
The Battle of Trenton boosted the morale of the American troops.