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Late 1600s - Mid 1700s

Because of distance between the two, Britain allows the American Colonies freedoms as long as they made money

I give it a 6/10 in importance because it allowed the Colonies to begin revolution

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1754-1763

fought by the British and French over the Ohio river valley

I give it a 8/10 because it was the reason for nearly all of the taxes imposed on the colonists

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1763

stopped colonists from traveling westward into French and Native American land to prevent any conflict

I give it a 3/10 in importance because westward travel didn't end up having a pivotal role in the revolution

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1764

tax on sugar to pay for the Seven Years War, but also to prevent any more smuggling of sugar and molasses

I give it a 6/10 in importance because it was the first of many taxes to pay for the Seven Years War

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1765-1776

formed because of the stamp act, the Sons of liberty were the very beginnings of the revolution and they organized the Boston Tea Party

I give it a 9/10 in importance because it started the organized revolutionary movement in the colonies.

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1765

A tax on paper goods to pay for the cost of the Seven Years War

I give it an 5/10 in importance because it added to the texts already imposed on the colonists

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June 29, 1767

Tax on glass, lead, paper, and tea to pay for british soldiers' wages.

a boycott on these products was conducted by the Sons of Liberty in protest of the tax, but it failed, and the tax stayed in place

I give it a 5/10 because it was another tax to add to the list of reasons for revolution.

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Oct 20, 1768, MA & NY

an act of parliament that required the colonial authorities to provide housing, food, and transportation to British soldiers occupying the colonies

some colonists were evicted from their homes to allow for the soldiers

I give it an 8/10 because it was one of the more serious transgressions against the colonists, and it caused the 3rd amendment to the constitution.

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March 5, 1770

after a group of boys threw stones through the windows of a British informant's house, two British soldiers came and one of them fired their musket at an eleven year old boy, who died later that night

I give this a 9/10 because it raised tensions further and added to the unpopularity of the British regime in the colonies.

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Dec 16, 1773

after the British trade company, the East India Company had been in financial trouble, parliament gave them a monopoly on the tea trade in the colonies and caused outrage among the colonists.

because of this, the Sons of Liberty arranged for a ransacking of three East India Co. trade ships in which members dressed as Mohawk Indians and threw 342 chests of tea into Boston harbor

I give it a 7/10 in importance because it is the best known example of the acts of the sons of liberty, and because England retaliated with the Intolerable Acts.