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This war began due to a conflict between England and France over control of the Ohio River Valley.
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This proclamation was issued by King George III
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The Sugar Act, was a law that attempted to curb the smuggling of sugar and molasses in the colonies by reducing the previous tax rate and enforcing the collection of duties.
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Goods were stamped to show the tax had been paid.
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The Townshend Acts were a series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies, they placed new taxes and took away some freedoms from the colonists
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The Boston Massacre was a street fight between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers.
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The Tea Act, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company from bankruptcy by greatly lowering the tea tax.
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American colonists were, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.
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The series of acts British Parliament passed was a reaction to the Boston Tea Party came to be known in the American colonies as the Intolerable Acts.
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The First Continental Congress, which was comprised of delegates from the colonies, in reaction to the Coercive Acts, a series of measures imposed by the British government on the colonies in response to their resistance to new taxes.