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Once upon a time, there was a kingly lion. Everyone 

feared the English lion, as it had awesome power. One 

day, the lion noticed something strange...

The king lion pondered this for a moment.

...the king cried as an idea struck him.

He rushed off to put some citizens on a ship and 

send them to a far away place, where there was 

enough space and resources for every to be happy 

(and maybe make him a little money) . 

The people the king had put on the boat sailed long 

and far, looking for what the king was hoping for.

The voyagers found exactly what they were looking for; 

a land full of resource and promise. Once America's 

foundation had been set, there was no stopping it. Soon 

afterward, 13 British colonies were set up in America.

Tensions were high in America, as the Colonial 

Americans had just won a war with the French and 

Natives, giving them almost half of America.

The colonists rejoiced.   They had been wanting to settle 

the Ohio River Valley, a very fertile area around the Ohio 

River that was previously controlled by the French. It 

proved, however, to be disastrous. The Natives were 

angry with how poorly the British were treating them in 

comparison to the French. After an incident known as 

Pontiac's Rebellion, about 2000 settlers were killed by 

Natives.

Out of fear and care for the well-being of their people, 

the king lion, namely King George III, issued the 

Proclamation of 1763, stating that no one could settle 

beyond the Appalachian Mountains.  

This enraged the colonists. They had been put through 

harsh conditions during the war with promises of new 

land to settle once the British won the war. Now they 

were having the only thing that kept them from rioting 

taken away from them like *that*. The anger fed off of 

itself. King George ordered 10,000 British soldiers to be 

enforce the law and make sure no one made it past.

There weren't any fancy hotels back then, either. King 

George had to pass the Quartering Act, stating that all 

colonial homeowners had to house and feed any British 

soldiers for as long as they needed. Even though the 

colonists were angry, the British soldiers' use of Writs 

of Assistance justified everything they did.

Totally not a 

fake document

Tensions only got higher. Needing money for various 

reasons, the the King taxed goods such as paper, glass, and 

even tea in the colonies without representing them in 

Parliament.   Usually the colonists would boycott the good 

being taxed and make their own version until the British 

relented. However, the conditions of taxes on tea got so 

ridiculous that the bottled-up anger exploded. Several 

colonists in Boston, while dressed as Native Americans for 

affect, boarded trade ships full of tea and dumped over 300 

crates of East India Company tea in to the Boston Harbor. 

This event became known as the Boston Tea Party.  

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