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french and Indians were arguing about the Appalachian mountains.
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British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide
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to encourage trade with the British West Indies at the expense of the French and Dutch West Indies.
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imposed a tax on all papers and official documents in the American colonies,
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a deadly riot It began as a street brawl between American colonists and a lone British soldier, but quickly escalated to a chaotic, bloody slaughter
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a political protest American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.
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granted the company the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies without first landing it in
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a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party
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the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War
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appeals directly to King George III and expresses hope for reconciliation between the colonies and Great Britain
