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French & Britain fighting over Ohio River Valley -
This was an attempt by the British government to restrict the American colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains in an attempt to ease tensions between the colonists and the Native Americans. -
This was the first effort by the British to control economic activity in the American colonies by limiting what sugar products could buy and sell. -
This British policy required colonists to purchase stamps for all official paper publications, including letters, newspapers, and magazines. -
Colonists were required to pay for the housing of British soldiers. -
This British policy imposed taxes that colonists had to pay on tea, glass, lead, paper, and paint products. -
After the various acts, the king put on the colonists, the colonists were angered so after a town meeting on March 5, 1770, a couple of angered colonists antagonized some red coats and one red coat freaked out and shot one of the colonists -
The Boston Massacre made war between the colonies and Britain inevitable because after the Boston Massacre the colonists wanted war with Britain because the red coats shot, killed, and injured innocent colonists
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This British act required that colonists were only allowed to purchase tea from the British-owned East India Trading Company which directly impacted the colonial merchants -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord kicked off the revolutionary war and took place in Middlesex County, Province of Massassachusets Bay within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge -
“occasioned by the system before mentioned, and to settle peace through every part of your dominions, with all humility submitting to your Majesty's wise consideration whether it may not be expedient for facilitating those important purposes, that your Majesty be pleased to direct some mode, by which the united applications of your faithful colonists to the throne, in pursuance of their common councils, may be improved into a happy and permanent reconciliation