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it was a small war inside a larger war between Great Britain and France -
it was a British boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains -
it was when the British Parliament set a 3 pence tax on sugar -
colonists had to pay for an official stamp or seal on purchase of paper items -
taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea -
a crowd gathered in Boston after a British soldier struck a colonist -
parliament passed the tea tax in 1773 to allow the British east India company to sell cheap tea to the colonists -
Colonists disguised as Indians attacked British tea ships and threw the tea overboard -
this was to punish them for their "tea party" -
a meeting in Philadelphia of delegates from all colonies except Georgia