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Also known as the u.s war of independence took place between 1765 and 1783.

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The British enforced mercantilism acts on the colonists. You had to pay money to trade and trading with France was now illegal. People who resisted were prostituted without jury.

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The intolerable acts were harsh acts passed by the British onto the colonists to punish them for protests like the Boston tea party.

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The stamp act was when the British taxed the colonists for every piece of printed paper they used like legal documents, newspapers and licences.

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Colonists began to protest against the taxing. The sons of liberty which was a rebel group soon spread throughout the colonies. Durring one of the protests a fight broke out and many colonists were killed. This event was called the Boston Massacre.

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prior to 1764 the colonists basically governed themselves. In 1764 the British made new laws and taxes. Some of these taxes included the sugar ac, stamp act, quartering act and currency act. The colonists believed that they did not have to pay these taxes because they were not a part of the British parliament, there motto became " no taxation without representation".

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During the french and Indian war the British helped the colonists fight in the war and protected them but when  the British needed more troops they decided to tax the colonists to pay for more troops.

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The Boston tea party was a key event in the american revolution. Men dressed as Indians and threw all of the tea overboard because of unfair taxing on British tea.