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The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War, a worldwide nine years’ war fought between France and Great Britain. As a result of the war, France gave all of its North American territory east of the Mississippi River to Britain. The costs of the war contributed to the British government’s decision to impose new taxes on its American colonies.

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The Stamp Act was created as a result of the costly war between Britain and France. Colonists protested this act through refusal to use the stamps as well as by riots and intimidation of colonial stamp distributors.

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The Townshend Acts were passed by the British Parliament in an attempt to assert what it considered to be its historic right to exert authority over the colonies through suspension of a recalcitrant representative assembly and through strict provisions for the collection of revenue duties.

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In Boston, a small British army detachment that was threatened by mob harassment opened fire and killed five people, an incident soon known as the Boston Massacre. The soldiers were charged with murder and were given a civilian trial.

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Protesting both a tax on tea (taxation without representation), a party of Bostonians boarded ships at anchor and dumped an estimated £10,000 worth of tea into the harbor, an event known as the Boston Tea Party.