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To reduce tensions in the colonies, Parliament repealed almost all of the

Townshend Acts. However, it kept the tax on tea. British officials knew

that the colonial demand for tea was high despite the boycott. But colonial

merchants were smuggling most of this imported tea and paying no duty

on it.

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The act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards.

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The British soldiers

claimed that they acted in self-defense. Quincy and Adams argued this

point in the trial. The Boston jury agreed, finding Preston and six soldiers

not guilty. Two soldiers were convicted of killing people in the crowd by

accident.

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The French and Indian War was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes.

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The British government then passed laws that were even harsher. The colonists called them the Intolerable Acts

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To raise money, Britain forced the colonies to pay new taxes. In 1765 the British lawmakers, called Parliament, passed a law called the Stamp Act

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Having repudiated its own currency and no power of taxation, Congress did not have an independent source of revenue to pay off its domestic and foreign debts

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The outcome of his analysis was that the Navigation Acts imposed a net burden of less than one percent of colonial per capita income.

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The Townshend Acts or Townshend Duties were a series of British acts of Parliament passed during 1767 and 1768 introducing a series of taxes and regulations to enable administration of the British colonies in America.

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The Seven Years' War was a global conflict involving most of the European great powers, fought primarily in Europe and the Americas.

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The Battles of Lexington and Concord was the first major military campaign of the American Revolutionary War, resulting in an American victory and outpouring of militia support for the anti-British cause.

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The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates of 12 of the Thirteen Colonies held from September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia at the beginning of the American Revolution.