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The French and Indian war/ the seven years war caused Great Britain to go into debt. -
The Stamp act was a tax on anything printed off on paper. -
This repealed The Stamp Act. -
Placed new taxes on glass, lead, paper and tea. -
British soldiers fired into a crowd of rowdy people and was misinterpreted. -
A few colonists dressed up as Indians snuck onto a ship and threw off boxes of British tea. -
A series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. They closed the Boston Harbor. -
Allowed British soldiers to go and stay in random colonists home. -
Marked the start of the American War of Independence. Also were the 'shot heard round the world' -
To plan further responses if the British government did not repeal or modify the acts, there was a first continental congress prior to this. -
A book written by Thomas Paine advocating for freedom from the British for the 13 colonies. -
This document officially freed the 13 Colonies from British control no longer being colonies and now being 13 States.