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When Britain began to tax the colonies which upset the colonists because they had no representation.
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They weren't happy that they couldn't settle west.
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This was the first tax on the colonies and there was no representation in parliament.
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Required colonists to purchase stamps for all official paper publications, including letters, newspapers and magazines.
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Due to the taxes placed on the colonies colonists were upset and began harassing British soldiers causing the soldiers to open fire into a crowded and killed 5 colonists. -
This hurt the economy of the colonies and colonial tea merchants.
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The British issued the tea act which angered the colonists to the point of the Sons of Liberty dumping 18,000 worth of tea into the harbor.
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Happened because of the Boston tea party. The purpose was to punish the colonists. The acts closed the Boston Harbor and limited colonial town meetings.
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The British troops marched out of Boston to steal the colonists’ supplies of gunpowder. -
The colonists offered to King George III that they would be the most loyal subjects if Britain would repeal the taxes placed on them.
