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The war provided Great Britain with land, it was over North America. -
A document that set out guidelines for European settlement of Aboriginal territories in what is now North America. -
They imposed taxes legal documents, newspapers, and playing cards. This is the first tax on American colonists and it is highly disliked. -
It was a fight between a patriot mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. -
The British government granted the company a monopoly on the importation and sale of tea in the colonies. -
The Boston tea party was a political protest against the taxes on tea. -
This was to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
The American patriots were defeated at the Battle of Bunker Hill, but they proved they could hold their own against the superior British Army. -
Historians say that Henry's “Liberty or Death” speech helped convince those in attendance to begin preparing Virginia troops for war against Great Britain. -
Hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache. -
The 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain. -
The Treaty of Paris ended the war after all of those years.