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The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France
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Prevented American colonists from settling west of Appalachia
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It was the British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies
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American colonists were required to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used
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The Townshend Acts were a series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies in 1767. they took away freedoms and added new taxes.
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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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To get rid of all of the tea that Britain had
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A protest where American colonists dumped tea into the ocean because of the taxes they were putting on them
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Punitive laws passed by the British Parliament after the Boston Tea Party.
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The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States.