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Proclamation
Was a proclamation issued on 7 October of 1763 by the King of England George III as a result of the acquisition by Great Britain of the French territory in North America after the end of the Seven Years' War -
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Intolerable Acts
Term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. -
Common Sense published
Written by Thomas Paine in advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. -
Declaration of Independence
Thirteen american colonies regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states.