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French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763.
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Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the Seven Years' War
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sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market. -
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
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a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers.
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that was designed to bail out the British East India Company and expand the company's monopoly on the tea trade to all British Colonies, selling excess tea at a reduced price.
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American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea
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laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party
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Carpenter's Hall was also the seat of the Pennsylvania Congress