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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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Issued by King George III. Royal Proclamation of 1763 was more than a prohibition of westward settlement.
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Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses.
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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. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed.
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colonial U.S. history, series of four acts passed by the British Parliament in an attempt to assert what it considered to be its historic right
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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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In an effort to save the troubled enterprise.