England had been following a policy called "salutary neglect", but then began enforcing taxes to help pay for the French and Indian War.
I think it was the State of Virginia
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The Peace of Westphalia, concluded in 1648 in Münster (Germany), ended the Thirty Years War, which started with an anti-Habsburg revolt in Bohemia in 1618 but became an entanglement of different conflicts concerning the constitution of the Holy Roman Empire, religion, and the state system of Europe.