Before the outbreak of the War of American Independence, the thirteen American colonies on the eastern seaboard of North America were under the colonial control of:
A major underlying cause of resentment among the American colonists was the imposition of taxes by the British Parliament on the colonies without granting them any:
A. Direct representation in the British Parliament
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The popular slogan used by American colonists to protest against British taxation policies, reflecting their objection to being taxed without a voice in Parliament, was:
The 1765 British legislation that required colonists to pay a tax on virtually all printed materials, including newspapers, legal documents and playing cards, was known as the:
In protest against a British tax on tea and the East India Company's monopoly over tea imports, a group of American colonists boarded ships in a Massachusetts harbour in 1773 and threw chests of tea into the sea. This event is known as the:
In response to the Boston Tea Party, the British Parliament passed a series of punitive laws aimed at punishing the colony of Massachusetts, which the colonists referred to as the:
