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The french and indian war began in 1754 and ended with the treaty of paris in 1763.The war provided a lot of extra land for Great Britain in North America, but the war was expensive. The loss of money led to the American Revolution.
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After the British victory in the French and Indian war, a royal proclamation was made by King George III. It was made to stop colonization in the west, which was seen as beneficial by native Americans, and bad to colonists.
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In 1764 Parliament passed the Sugar Act, with the goal of raising 100,000 pounds. The sugar act lowered the price of molasses from 6 pence per gallon to 3 pence per gallon, in order to discourage stealing.
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The stamp act made a tax on any legal documents and printed materials. Those papers must need a stamp, which you have to pay tax for.
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The Townshend Acts of 1767 were a series of measures passed by the british parliament that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. The colonists saw this as an abuse of power.
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The boston massacre was a street fight caused by a "patriot mob," throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks at a group of British Soldiers. Several colonists were killed by british soldiers.
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The British Parliament passed the Tea Act in 1773. The act granted the company the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies without first landing it in England, and to help tea sellers so they would have the right to sell tea in the colonies.
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The boston tea party was a protest at Griffin's Wharf in Boston. British colonists were very mad about all of the tax, so they dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.
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The Intolerable Acts were laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British Government.
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On September 5, 1774, delegates from each of the 13 colonies except for Georgia, met in Philadelphia as the First Continental Congress to organize resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts