American Colonists Before The Revolutionary War

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What would you do if you were being taxed a lot of money from the powerful government and your opinion meant nothing to them? Well this is the situation the American colonists faced before the American Revolutionary war. The French and Indian war in the 1760s. The British government needed money to pay for the war, so King George III passed the laws to tax all the colonists. The colonists became very mad and then began the American War. Two British actions that the colonist thought were unfair were the high taxes without colonist representation in the British parliament and the quartering of the British soldiers in colonial buildings. The two ations the colonists took to resist the British was The Boston Tea Party and boycotting British goods.

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