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- After the French and Indian War, policies that restricted westward settlement and imposed new taxes turned colonial gratitude into resentment because those measures limited land opportunities and added financial burdens that undercut the sense of reward for imperial protection.
After the French and Indian War, policies that restricted westward settlement and imposed new taxes turned colonial gratitude into resentment because those measures limited land opportunities and added financial burdens that undercut the sense of reward for imperial protection.
- Destroying taxed tea created a clear symbolic challenge to Parliamentary authority, and Britain responded by closing Boston's port to punish and isolate the city, which in turn strengthened colonial solidarity and deepened economic hardship.
Destroying taxed tea created a clear symbolic challenge to Parliamentary authority, and Britain responded by closing Boston's port to punish and isolate the city, which in turn strengthened colonial solidarity and deepened economic hardship.
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