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What effect did raising taxes on the American people after 1763 have?

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Britain raised taxes on the American colonists after 1763 because they wanted to pay off war debts from the French and Indian war and to cover the cost of ruling the new lands. The colonists resented those taxes, no taxation without representation! They boycotted British goods.

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