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The Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Year War between Great Britain and France -
Taxing sugar to raise revenue to help the military costs of protecting the American colonies -
The British parliament had colonists pay a tax for British troops -
Said that the Parliament could make laws binding the American colonies in all cases -
British parliament taxed goods like tea, sugar, etc, imported to the American colonies -
A mob began harassing soldiers. Then a soldier was knocked down by a snowball and shot his gun. Eventually it gets even worse and the soldiers end up killing a couple people. -
Rhode Islanders boarded, burnt, and sank the Gaspee in Narragansett Bay -
British government gave the company a monopoly on the importation and sale of tea in the colonies -
4 laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party -
delegates meet to organise opposition to the Intolerable Acts -
The British went to Lexington and Concord to stop the possibility of rebellion by taking weapons from the colonists. But their actions accidentally made the first battle of the Revolutionary War. -
The statement the declared freedom of the 13 colonies from Great Britain