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French and Britain fighting over Ohio river valley in 1754. -
British produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the eastern Continental divide -
cut the duty on foreign molasses from 6 to 3 pence per gallon -
the first internal tax levied directly on American colonist by the British parliament -
raising revenue from the British colonies at America -
taxed goods imported to the American colonies in 1770 -
granted the company the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies without first landing it -
an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, -
punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. -
the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
adopted by the Second Continental Congress