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were a series of laws that restricted the use of foreign ships for trade between every country except Britain. This ended 200 years later.
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North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War. The war was fought between the colonies of British America and New France
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forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.
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set a tax on sugar and molasses imported into the colonies which impacted the manufacture of rum in New England.
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was a law that required all colonial residents to pay a stamp tax on virtually every printed paper including legal documents, bills of sale, contracts, wills, advertising, pamphlets, almanacs, and even playing cards and dice.
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was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act.
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were a series of acts passed by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America.
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British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others.
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initially referred to by John Adams as "the Destruction of the Tea in Boston") was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston
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They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor.
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a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies
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a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies.