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French and English fought over land that the French had bought in the Colonies and the war ended in the Treaty of Paris -
King George the III said that the colonial settlers couldn't have land on the west side of the Appalachian mountains and they couldn't make deals with the natives -
To stop people from smuggling molasses and sugar they changed the price so it was lower -
Britain was in financial trouble so they taxed the colonists and used stamps on paper -
The Townshend Acts taxed goods that were imported to the Colonies -
British soldiers got harassed by a mob in Boston and shot and killed multiple people -
The British forced the Colonists buy tea from them and had tax on the tea that the colonists had to pay -
The Colonists got angry with the British and they went aboard a ship with tea and dumped the tea overboard into the harbor
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Laws passed by the British to punish the Massachusetts colonist for the Boston Tea Party -
The delegates decided whether they should boycott British goods
