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The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France. ended in 1763.
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After Britain won the Seven Years' War and gained land in North America, it issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which prohibited American colonists from settling west of Appalachia.
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Britain was giving the colonist taxes on things like sugar
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The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used
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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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The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers.
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The act's main purpose was not to raise revenue from the colonies but to bail out the floundering East India Company, a key actor in the British economy.
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The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, it was to fight tea.
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Intolerable Acts. The Intolerable Acts were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party.
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The First Continental Congress, which was comprised of delegates from the colonies, met in 1774 in reaction to the Coercive Acts,