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Date 1754-1763

So What:  This provided Great Britain with great land gains

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Date March 22, 1765

So What:  To help pay for troops stationed in the colonies

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Date March 22, 1765

So What:  to help replenish their finances after the costly Seven Years' War with France

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Date may 15, 1765

So What:  in response to greatly increased empire defense costs in America following the French and Indian War and Pontiac's War.

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Date October 7, 1765 – October 25, 1765

So What:  to discuss the rights of the colonists regarding British taxation such as the Stamp Act

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Date oct 7-25, 1765

So What:  To discuss the rights of the colonists

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Date April 12, 1770

So What:  There was widespread protest, and American port cities refused to import British goods

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Date may 10, 1773

So What:  to save the faltering East India Company from bankruptcy by greatly lowering the tea tax it paid to the British government

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Date Dec 16, 1773

So What:  In simplest terms, the Boston Tea Party happened as a result of “taxation without representation”

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Date march 31, 1774

So What:    to break Massachusetts Bay and to warn the other colonies of the consequences of rebellious behavior

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Date September 5 and October 26, 1774.

So What:  to reassert its dominance over the American colonies following the Boston Tea Party.

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Date:  (1775)

So What:  to plan further responses if the British government had not repealed or modified the acts

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Date march 5, 1775

So What:  American colonists rebelled against the taxes they found repressive, rallying around the cry, “no taxation without representation.

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Date april 19, 1775

So What:  colonial opposition to British attempts to impose greater control over the colonies and to make them repay the crown for its defense of them during the French and Indian War

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Date 1776

So What:  declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act.