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The Navigation Acts were a set of rules that the English Parliament imposed on the colonists. It made the colonists sell all raw materials to England. even though they might be able to find better prices elsewhere in England. -
The British law that imposes a heavy tax on sugar and rum. And the rum was imported into the American colonies to help protect the British West Indies. -
Fort Necessity was a small fort set up by George Washington in the spring of 1754 during the attack by the French and the native Americans. -
The French and Indian War was between Great Britain and France for control of the country. -
The Sugar Act was a British law designed to increase revenue from the American colonies to help pay off debts from the Seven Years' War. -
The Townshend Acts of 1767 taxed items such as tea and glassware, angering American colonists and sparking protests. -
The Boston Massacre was when British soldiers shot into a crowd, killing five colonists. This event made many colonists angry and fueled the fight against British rule. -
As the new royal governor of Massachusetts, following the Boston Tea Party, appointed by the British Crown to enforce the punitive Coercive Acts, Gage's takeover included shutting down the Boston port and tightening control over the government. -
The Declaratory Acts were laws. And that said, the British could make rules for the American colonies about anything.