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What caused the event? The rise of the Dutch trade threatened to drive English from shipping over seas.
What happened? It required all trade between the colonies to be carried in English ships.
What was the impact? It resulted in the Anglo-Dutch war in 1652.

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What caused the event? The issue of whether or not the Ohio river valley was part of the British empire or French empire.
What happened? The French and Indians fought each other for seven years over a spot of land.
What was the impact? It ended with the treaty of Paris in 1763, and to Great Britain won more land.

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What caused the event? Aimed at ending the sugar smuggling from French and Dutch indies.
What happened? They realized they were taxing to much for a gallon of sugar.
What was the impact? They
reduced tax on sugar from six pence to three pence per gallon.

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What caused the event? The British parliament trying to help replenish their finances after the seven years war.
What happened? Legal document and printed things must have a tax stamp given by commissioned distributors who will collect the tax in exchange for the stamp.
What was the impact? In March, parliament voted to repeal the stamp tax.

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What caused the event? The Declaratory Act was a reaction of British Parliament to the failure of the Stamp Act
What happened? It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain
What was the impact? The colonists convinced them to repeal it, but the same day they passed the Declaratory Act

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What caused the event? The Townshend Acts were a series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies
What happened? They placed new taxes and took away some freedoms from the colonists
What was the impact? Most of the acts were repealed by Parliament under Frederick, Lord North.

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What caused the event? The protesters, who called themselves Patriots, were protesting the occupation of their city by British troops
What happened? Soldiers began firing and killed 5 colonist.
What was the impact? The deaths of the five men are regarded by some historians as the first fatalities in the American Revolutionary War.

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What caused the event? They passed bill designed to save the faltering East India Company from bankruptcy
What happened? Granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies
What was the impact? The Sons of Liberty organized a protest against the Tea Act known as the Boston Tea Party.

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What caused the event? The Boston Tea Party happened as a result of “taxation without representation”
What happened? Colonist dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.
What was the impact? The British shut down Boston Harbor until all of the 340 chests of British East India Company tea were paid for.

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What caused the event? The Boston Tea party caused the intolerable acts.
What happened? Some laws passed were Boston port act, administration of justice act, quartering act, Quebec act.
What was the impact? Colonists responded to the Intolerable Acts with a show of unity, convening the First Continental Congress to discuss and negotiate a unified approach to the British.