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The British government banned settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. All settlers had to move east of the line. Colonists felt they should be able to settle where they wished.

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The British put an import tax on several products including molasses.

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To save money, Britain required the colonists to quarter, or house, British troops and provide them with food and other supplies.

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It required that all colonists buy special tax stamps for newspapers, wills, licenses, land titles, contracts, and other documents.

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Britain would not tax products or activities inside the colonies. It would only tax products brought into the colonies.

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Parliament repealed all the Townshend duties---except on tea. A crowd of workers and sailors surrounded a group of soldiers. They threw snowballs and rocks at them. The frightened soldiers fired on the crowd. Five were killed.

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To help the British East India Company that had been boycotted by the colonies, the British gave the Company a monopoly on selling tea in the colonies.

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In reaction to the Boston Tea Party, the British Parliament passed the following acts: closed the port of Boston, abolished the upper house of the Massachusetts legislature, cut the powers of town meetings, and strengthened the Quartering Act.

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The delegates in Philadelphia demanded the repeal of the Intolerable Acts and declared that the colonies had a right to tax and govern themselves.

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When the British commander ordered  the minutemen to leave Lexington and they refused to go home from Lexington, a shot rang out...the first shot of the American Revolution. The British killed 8 Americans. In Concord the Americans fired on the British , killing or wounding 300.