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People from England needed more money when the French and Indian war
happened. They needed to pay for the weapons and other necessary items
for the war. So, the people in England raised the tax on lots of things
like sugar, paper, tea, and more. Colonists didn't think it would be
fair to other people. They didn't like the idea of doing that, so the
colonists and some indians dumped a shipload of British tea into the
Boston Harbor. Then, that was known as the Boston Tea Party. After the
colonists did that, the British and the Colonists went to war. The war
they had was called the Revolutionary War or the American Revolution.
When the war was still on, the colonists made a government called the
Continental Congress. The congress made the Declaration of Independence
to say that America was breaking free from England.
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