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The French and Indian War This war (The Seventh Year’s war) was a global war. A large position of it took place in the colonies. The war ended in 1763. But there were hard feelings left between many Indians and colonists.
A global war can be a bit pricey. The British won the war, but Parliament still had to pay for it all. On top of that, Britain needed to leave troops in the colonies to protect them from the now very hoslile Indians. Before the Treaty of Paris. The areas with stripes indicated the disputed territory.
The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773. The target was the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, which allowed the British East India company to sell tea from China in American colonies without paying taxes apart from those imposed by the Townshend Acts, thus undercutting local tea merchants: Demonstrators, some disguised as Native Americans, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company. Boston Tea Party
They boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into Boston Harbor. The British government responded harshly and the episode escalated into the American Revolution. The Tea Party became an iconic event of American history, and since then other political protests such as the Tea Party movement have referred to themselves as historical successors to the Boston protest of 1773.
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