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Was the North American theater of the worldwide seven years war. The war was fought between the colonies of British America and New France with both sides supported by military.
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Was issued in 1763 by king George lll following great britains acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and indian war.
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Parliament passed a modified version of the sugar and molasses act which was about to expire under the molasses act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon
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We're series of acts passed beginning in 1767 by the parliament of grant britian relating to British colonies in North America
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Was a street fight that occurred on March 5 1770 between a patriot mob throwing snowballs stones and sticks and a squad of brithish soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to acampaign by speech writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry.
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Was the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by britian on her American colonies. The policy ignited a "power keg" of opposition and resentment among American colonist and was the catalyst of the Boston tea party.
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The Boston tea party was a political protest by the sons of Liberty in Boston on December 16 1773
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We're the American patriots term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British parliament in 1774 after the Boston tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston barber.
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Written by Thomas Jefferson and adopted by the second continental congress states the reasons the British colonies of North America sought independence in July of 1776
