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punitive laws passed by the British Parliament
The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest -
the war began in 1754 and ended in 1763
The war provided great Britain territorial gains in north America.
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issued by the British to appease the native Americans by checking the encroachment of European settlers on their land.
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British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies
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forced colonists to buy a British stamp for every official document they obtained.
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were a series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies
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a deadly riot that occurred because people where protesting to enforce unpopular taxation
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reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India
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was a political protest that happened because American colonists where frustrated at Britain for imposing taxation without representation.
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a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States.