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After defeating the French in North America, the British needed to occupy their newly acquired lands and garrison them with soldiers. They needed to raise money to pay for this, and chose to tax sugar exports. These increased taxes were bitterly resented by the Americans, who had no say in the governing of their country.
They retaliated by banning British imports and then, in 1776, by signing the Declaration of Independence triggering war with Britain. At first the British were successful, b
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