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A war that started over a conflict between Great Britain and France.
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The Treaty of Paris granted Britain a deal of valuable North American land.
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British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French.
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A tax that was imposed on all American colonists and made them pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
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It taxed goods imported to the American colonies.
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A street fight between a "patriot" mob, throwing things, and a squad of British soldiers.
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The purpose was not to raise revenue from the colonies, but to bail out the floundering East India Company.
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The Sons of Liberty boarded ships and threw the chests of tea into to the Boston Harbor.
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Four punitive measures enacted by the British Parliament.
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Delegates from each of the 13 colonies except for Georgia met in Philadelphia as the First Congressional Congress