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George Washington was sent to confront the French forces. Washington launched a surprise attack. After he surrendered to French forces which sparked the French and Indian War.
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The Proclamation of 1736 was issued by the British to appease the Native Americans. It created a boundary known as the proclamation line, it has become one of the cornerstones of Native American law in the United States and Canada.
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British wanted to end the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch to provide increased revenues to enlarges British empires. It provided for strong customs enforcement of the duties on refined sugar and molasses imported into the colonies from non-British Caribbean sources.
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When the British was in debt, it looked at its North American colonies as a revenue source. The act imposed taxing, and colonists would resort to violence for intimidating stamp collectors.
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When the British passed a series of measures that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. The American colonies saw the act as abusive power.
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he Boston Massacre was a deadly riot that occurred on King Street in Boston. It quickly escalated to a chaotic, bloody slaughter. It paved the way for the American Revolution.
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The Tea Act of 1773 was not to raise revenue, but to bail out the floundering East India Company, a key actor in the British economy.
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The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston. The American colonies 342 chests of tea because they were angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation.
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the 1st Continental Congress was comprised of delegates from the colonies in reaction to the Coercive Acts.
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The Intolerable acts were laws passed by the British to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party. The acts took away self-governance and rights that Massachusetts had enjoyed since its founding.