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Charles II became the king of England, most European leaders believed an econdamic system called mercantilism.
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In the 1750s, France and Britain were fighting in Europe. The war was now spreading to North America. British Colonists wanted to take over French land in North America. The British wanted to take over the fur trade in the French held territory.
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From 1756, Britan and American allies fought a war against the French and their Indian allies. the war was over control of North America.
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The British and Americans won the war , and in 1763, France gave up mostsof its territory in North America to England.After, the war had several consequences. One was that a treaty with Indian tribes forbid American settlers from moving west. Another is that England began rising taxes to pay its debts from the war.
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This is the ending of Seven's year's war, also known as the French and Indian War in North America.
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On April 5, 1764, Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act (1733), which was about to expire. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses. But because of corruption, they mostly evaded the taxes and undercut the intention of the tax — that the English product would be cheaper than that from the French West Indies. This hurt the British West Indies market in molasses and sugar and
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The Stamp Act required colonists to buy stamps to put on all kinds of products, like newspapers.
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In 1770, a fight broke out between a mob of Americans and British soldiers. The soldiers fired out the crowd and five colonist
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By 1776, the population of the colonies had reached 2.5 million people. This was about one third the population of Britain. There were now many roads connecting the individual colonies, and newspapers kept them informed about each other. The colonies were beginning to think of themselves as Americans, not as separate colonies.
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congress signed the Declaration of Independance
