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The town got so riled up that when the tea arrived none of them unloaded it or bought any. Then on December 16, 1773, the Sons of Liberty dumped about 90,000 pounds of tea into the ocean dressed as Native Americans. The British saw the horrible meaning of defiance and sought out great consequences for not just those involved, but the entirety of Boston.

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Lord North’s Tea Act was a last resort to save the British East India Company. To save the company, the British gave the tea company full control over all legal selling of tea in the colonies, this includes who sold the tea and where. Merchants began to worry about the monopoly given the the company. What if they started to control more taxed items?

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In 1768, Britain sent over even more troops to the colonies to make sure they were in line. Bostonians hates these soldiers and on March 5, 1770 a mob broke out and threw rocks or snowballs (sources vary) at the soldiers who then responded by shooting at the crowd when provoked. The only reason the mob went home was when they were promised that the troops would be tried for murder.

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Sam Adams saw this horrid happening as a way to show British hatred. He has a silversmith named Paul Revere make an engraving of the incident where the soldiers were depicted as shooting at harmless, peaceful colonists. It was spread through the colonies only allowing their hatred of the soldiers to grow. John Adams, Sam Adams cousin, decided to defend the soldiers even though it would cost him dearly because he believed everyone had the right to a fair trial. In the end only two of them were found guilty of manslaughter.

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In 1767 a man named Charles Townshend who came up with a new tax for the colonists called the Towneshend Act. This new act taxed the colonists for popular items such as glass, paint, paper, and tea. Although this Act has been labeled a “duty”, the colonists senses it to just be another tax and decided to take some action. One Patriot named Samuel Adams was often the leader of these protests against the acts. Women were also very important in the boycott of this tax. They were a able to brew tea from pine cones, see dresses out of home spun cloth, and only buy American goods.

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Soon a new leader of British Parliament took over named Lord North. Although he was very relaxed at his job he was good at swing financial gain or loss and saw this Act as a huge loss. In 1770, Lord North was able to persuade Parliament to repeal the taxes on all the products except for tea, Britain’s highest selling supply. This was because King George did not want to give up taxing the colonists.

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The Proclamation of 1763 was made by King George III who decided the best way to keep the colonists and Native Americans from figuring if the colonists decided to move westward was to draw a line down the middle and yell the colonists to stay east of it and the Native Americans to stay west. The colonists started to see tyranny arise but couldn’t do much about it, besides people had already started to move across the mountains. However, the British ignored American actions and expanded the British army in the colonies to 7,500 men.

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The colonists were taxed the least in all of Britain’s kingdom so one man named Grenville decided to finally start taxing them, and to start off with the Stamp Act. The Stamp Act was a tax in whisk every piece of paper that was used had to have a purchased stamp. The colonists again sense tyranny. They weren’t upset with paying taxes but rather the fact they had no representation in Parliament and argued because of this. The Stamp Act was also when the patriot group who called themselves “Sons of Liberty” first arose.

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The colonists started to want to move into the Ohio Valley across the Appalachian Mountains when the colonies continued to grow and expand. However, both Britain and France  had already claimed this area. The governor of Virginia became started to worry and sent out a militia to drive out the French when the French decided to build a fort called Fort Duquesne in the valley. The governor needed a someone to lead the militia and hired a 22-year-old volunteer to do the job. This volunteer was George Washington. With Washington as their leader, the troops easily won the fight.

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These first shots at Fort Duquense were the first shots of the French and Indian War. Soon after Washington's battle, they sent a general over by the name of Edward Braddock to drive out the rest of the French. George has wanted to get onto the general’s good side so he joined the army as a volunteer. The British ended up winning this 7 Years War.