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American phase of a worldwide war fought between France and Great Britain

Result: France gave up all of its North American lands east of the Mississippi River to Britain

Costs of war contributed to the British decision to impose new taxes on American colonies

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Purpose: to raise money needed to meet the costs of defending the enlarged British Empire

Made it so that every official piece of paper the colonists used was taxed by the British

Was passed in England without input from the colonies, which many felt was unfair

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Series of laws passed without any colonial representation in the British Parliament

Created new taxes and took away some freedoms from the colonists:

Enacted new taxes on imported goods

Set up new courts in the colonies to prosecute people (without using a local jury)

Gave British officials the right to search colonists' houses and businesses

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Learn the basics about the Townshend Acts, a series of laws that intensified colonial rage toward the British crown in the 1760s.

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In Boston, a group of angry colonists threw rocks and snowballs at British soldiers

British soldiers opened fire and killed five people

The soldiers were put on trial but were found not guilty or given light punishments

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Members of a protest group known as the Sons of Liberty boarded ships at anchor and dumped

approximately £10,000 worth of tea into the harbor

Participants were protesting both a tax on tea (taxation without representation) and the requirement that

they buy all their tea from Britain’s East India Company (which created a monopoly)