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A 7 year war between Austria, England, France, Great Britain, Prussia, and Sweden. They battled for colonial domination.
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The end of the French and Indian War. It opened new opportunities for the colonists.
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Colonials had been required to pay taxes.
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Colonies suffered from a shortage of currency. there was no silver or gold, colonies felt no alternative to printing their own paper money in the form of Bills of Credit.
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The Stamp Act where they imposed taxes on all American colonists. They paid taxes on paper, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and playing cards were taxed. The money used from taxes was used to help pay for defending and protecting the American frontier.
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A small war between British troops and a crowd in Boston Massachusetts. The British soldiers shot and killed 5 people while being harassed by a mob.
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American colonist got angry from all the taxes, the tax on tea was one of them. Colonists dumped 342 chests of tea in the Boston Harbor. They dumped around 1 million dollars worth of Tea.
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The Tea Act as where they put taxes on tea and it was to flounder the East India Company.
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The government spent a lot of money on troops and defense. British government lost sums of money on looted, spoiled, and destroyed goods shipped to the colonies.
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Hundreds of British troops reached Lexington where 70 minutemen waited for them. A shot was suddenly fired, it was unsure who fired the shot.
