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The colonist were taking over French’s land so they started a war over the land. They ended the war by signing a treaty saying that they were going to give the colonist a certain amount of land and that France could not take it from them. -
The British did not want the colonies to settle in the newly acquired land that the French were forced to give. -
The British tried to end the smuggling of sugar and molasses by charging people more for the British sugar and they would only let you have 2lb per month. -
The British government was taxing the colonist on everything that had to be formally stamped. -
The British would tax things that were being imported to the American colonies. The British were sending troops to enforce the new law which made things worse. -
The Congress repealed the townshend act but didn’t repeal the tea tax because of what happen in the Boston harbor. -
The Boston massacre happened on king street. It happen when the colonist started to get hostel with the British army and the British Amy fired on the colonist. The colonist where throwing snow, ice, and pebbles. Someone told the British army to fire but the British officers did not tell them to. -
They were formed to inform the people about their rights. During that time they used this to communicate to each of the states to see what is going on. -
The British government passed a tax on their teas to help pay for the war. -
Some of the colonist dressed up as Indian and boarded a ship that had a shipment of tea on it and through the tea off the ship in to the Boston harbor. -
The British parliament shut down the Boston port after the colonist through the tea out into the water. -
The battles of Lexington and concord was the some of the first battles that started the revolutionary war.