The end of the Indian and French conflicts in 1763 resulted in a severe financial crisis that included: the need to increase revenues, as the crown imposed a host of new taxes on the colonies of America. Specifically, the Stamp Act of 1765, which focused on removing taxes on paper as well as printed products, angered colonists, resulting in the establishment of the radical American slogan "No Taxation without representation. Later, eight years later, in 1773, colonists opposed to the British taxation of tea abandoned 342 crates of tea in the British port, called the "Boston Tea Party". In April 1775, American soldiers fought British soldiers in Massachusetts at Concord and Lexington, the first clashes of what would become the American revolutionary regime..