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The British colonies and France were both trying to gain more land. They fought over the land between them for seven years, the British led by George Washington. It is called French and Indian because the Indians were helping the French.
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This proclamation was made by the British after the end of the French and Indian war, promising the Indians that they wouldn't settle west of the Appellations.
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The British taxed goods like sugar, molasses, coffee, and other goods in order to get more money and end smuggling those items between the French and Dutch indies.
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The Stamp Act was the name of the tax put on stamps, paper, envelopes, playing cards, etc.
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The Townshend acts were taxes on lots of British goods that angered the colonist because they didn't have a say in British Parliament. They boycotted British goods.
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The Boston Massacre was a fight between a few British soldiers and colonists where a few men died. It was used to try to scare the citizens that the soldiers in America were bad and needed to leave.
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It was a big tax on tea that was meant to give a tea company a monopoly on tea, but also to get more money from the colonies.
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The colonist dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor to get back at the king for all the unfair taxes and not giving them a say.
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The Coercive Acts, or the Intolerable Acts, are the Boston Port act, the Massachusetts Government act, the Administration for Justice act, and the Quartering act. These were aimed to shut down the people in Boston that wanted to separate from Britain in response to the Boston tea party.
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A bunch of the officials in the colonies met together and decided to boycott all British goods.