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The French and Indians were fighting against the British for land. The French wanted the land for killing animals and hunting. The Indians wanted the land because they lived there for 100s of years and they wanted it back. The British wanted it to farm and expand there nation.

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Sugar Act - taxed coffee, sugar, cloths.

Stamp act - any document.

Townshend Act -  tea, glass, paint, lead, coffee.

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The Americans responded by boycotting the products. So the British would repeal the taxes, but later they would just add more.

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The fact that none of the colonists could sit in parliament and vote on these taxes.

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Took place in front of the state house. Many colonists surrounded a few of the British soldiers and started throwing rocks and sticks, and snowballs at the soldiers. In confusion, the soldiers fire on the colonists.

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Famously, Paul Revere draws propaganda showing soldiers firing on colonists.

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The British kept the tax on tea. So the sons of liberty dressed up as indians, boarded three ships, and dumped the tea into the Boston Harbor.

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This made the British very angry. They added new laws called the Intolerable act.

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In the Lexington town the British came and searched for weapons and ammunition. When the British found the weapons they burned them and demolished them. Luckily John Hancock and Samual Adams came swiftly into the town and warned them to hide all there guns and ammunition so the British cant find them

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In Concord the American soldiers hid on a hill and ambushed the British and forced them fiercely back into Boston.

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The Americans wanted to be free and have no taxes and not have to be under control by British. Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to King George The 3rd. But King George didn't care and gave them more taxes.