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| These conflicts gave the British Empire effective control over North America | The Seven Years/French and Indian War |
| The Stamp Act forced the colonists to pay a small fee on all printed material. | taxation without representation |
| Explanation of Historians belief that the French and Indian War was a leading cause for the American Revolution. | British tried to get money back that they spent on the war by taxing the colonists. |
| Townsend Duties | Taxes on paint, paper, glass, lead, tea, and other items imported into the colonies |
| Reason taxes infuriated colonists before the revolution | Taxes were passed by Parliament without the colonists having representation to argue or vote on the tax. |
| 'Writs of assistance" search warrants were most often used for this | To search merchant ships and other locations for smuggled goods that had not been taxed or had been traded illegally with nations other than England |
| Gadsen group | Son's of Liberty |
| Reason for 'tea party' in Charleston | to protest a tax on tea |
| Reason Stamp Act was repealed | Colonists protested and Bristish merchants lost money |
| Major reason why English raised taxes in the colonies | to help pay for the French and Indian War |
| Most effective protest against Stamp Act | boycott on British goods |
| Christopher Gadsden was a member of this group | Son's of Liberty |
| Colonial response slogan to Bristish attempts to tax without their consent | No taxation without representation |
| Most frustrating thing Britain did to colonists | Navigational Acts - said where colonists could export and import |
| Difference in Tea Act | Not a tax, but created a monopoly on the tea trade |
| In Charles Town, colonists protested a tax on tea by taking a shipment of English tea | Placing it in the basement of the Exchange |
| People of Charles Town responded to Tea Act | They sent barrels of rice to Boston |
| Who were Son's of Liberty | Underground group that opposed Bristish taxes |
