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They decided to require several kinds of taxes from the colonists to help pay for the French and Indian War. These taxes included the Stamp Act, passed in 1765, which required the use of special paper bearing an embossed tax stamp for all legal documents.
The colony being described is Georgia. It was founded in 1732 and it served as a military protective zone between the English colonies and the Spanish settlement in Florida.
Taxation by the British crown, blockades of the trade routes
It started 1765 and ended in 1783
Boston Tea Party 1773
The Americans failed to invade Canada in during the winter of 1775
British captured New York City in 1776
Battle of Saratoga 1777
What caused the American colonies to win was the capture of a British army at Yorktown
Treaty of Paris was signed 1783 ending the war
I don't know whether there were options, but one technology for which the Bantu are quite well-known is the iron smelting: numerous archaeological sites (for example in Eastern Nigeria) with remains of iron smelting have been found in the area inhabited by the Bantus.
