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On October 7, 1763 Britain won the war against France 

and the Indians and won land west of the colonies. 

Britain didn't let people settle in the new land. Britain 

only allowed the colonist settle east of the Appalachian 

mountains. Britain was trying to keep more control over 

the colonies and sent more troops. This angered the 

colonist and they continued to move west. This help lead 

people to move west and expand and gain more freedom 

from britain. I felt like this was unfair because they 

fought for the land and now britain is taking the land 

away.

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On April 5, 1764 Britain wanted to tax sugar  

because many people started smuggling sugar into 

the colonies and Britain needed money to pay of 

some of the debt the war gave them. This caused the 

colonies to be even more angered because they 

didn't have the right to tax because they didn't have 

a representatives in Parliament. Many of the colonist 

were starting to think that britain was trying to keep 

the colonist more restricted. I think the colonist 

would be able to take the tax if britain asked them 

about it. This brought more of rebel to britain.  

On March 22, 1765 Britain forced the colonist 

to home soldier and provide for their need to 

save money and put expenses on the colonist.

Most colonist disagreed with the act and 

thought that they were trying to spy on them.

Lots of the colonist thought it was unfair 

because some didn't have money to spend on 

the soldiers every need.This made the colonist 

think that britain was trying to control them in 

every way. I think britain was wrong for 

putting random soldiers in peoples homes.

On March 24, 1765 Britain needed to pay off some of 

war debt so they created the stamp act. This put tax on 

most printed material, attempt to assert control over 

the colonies and made colonist buy stamp to prove that 

they paid tax. The act made colonist mad and they 

started boycotting british goods and they demanded 

that parliament repel this new law. This contributed to 

the road to revolution by the amounts of tax that britain 

gave the colonist that they started boycotting their 

goods. I think this was just another way to to keep the 

colonist under control but britain just made the colonist 

even angrier 

On June 29, 1767 britain made the townshend which put 

an indirect tax on imports and it suspended NY meeting 

until the quartering act was obeyed. This caused 

angered colonist to stop buying british goods and many 

fights between colonist and soldiers. The townshend act 

created lots of anger in the colonies. This contributed by 

making colonist rebel from britain. I think that britain 

went to far with the townshend act and the colonist have 

the right to be mad about it.

On march 5, 1770 colonist started abusing soldiers by 

throwing snowballs at them, the soldiers felt threatened  

and fired into the crowed. They killed 5 and wounded 

many. Many colonist demanded justice, britain agreed, 

they trialed the soldiers back in britain.

MANY colonist now too angry to even try to work with 

england. This led to lots of colonist not even wanting to 

do anything with england. i think that this was an awful 

thing the soldiers did.

On may 1773 Samuel Adams and others dressed as 

Mohawks and dumped tea into the harbor as the colonist 

watched in approval. This led to the intolerable act to 

punish the colonist. This showed that the colonist were 

rebelling england and made a big turn of the starting of 

the revolution. I think that the colonist had the right to 

protest and dump the tea, but now they have to pay the 

price.

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