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The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War.
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The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued by King George III. It forbade all settlement west of a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains, which was delineated as an Indian Reserve.
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British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies and at providing increased revenues to fund enlarged British Empire responsibilities following the French and Indian war.
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The first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British Parliament.
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They placed new taxes and took away some freedoms from the colonists including the following: New taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea.
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A deadly riot on King Street in Boston. It began as a street brawl between American colonists and a lone British soldier, but quickly escalated to a chaotic, bloody slaughter.
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The act granted the company the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies without first landing it in England, and to commission agents who would have the sole right to sell tea in the colonies.
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American colonists, 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 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 to the detriment of colonial goods.
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Met 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.