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French & Indian War
The French and Indian War pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France each side supported by military units from the parent country and by American Indian allies. -
Proclamation of 1763
The British issued a proclamation,mainly intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act reduced the rate of tax on molasses from six pence to three pence per gallon while Grenville took measures that the duty be strictly enforced. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act of 1765 required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies. -
Townshend Act
They helped to reignite anger in the colonies against England. Just the year before Parliament had repealed the Stamp Tax after heated protests from the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre occurred on March 5th, 1770 when British soldiers killed five protestors outside the Customs House in Boston. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a protest by the American Colonists against the British government. They staged the protest by boarding three trade ships in Boston Harbor and throwing the ships' cargo of tea overboard into the ocean. -
Coercive Act
The Coercive Acts describe a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774, relating to Britain's colonies in North America. -
1st Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States. -
" Shot heard round the world "
"The shot heard round the world" is a phrase that refers to the opening shot of the Battle of Concord in 1775 it began in the American Revolutionary War and led to the creation of the United States of America. -
2nd continental congress
A meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America which united in the American Revolutionary War. -
Common sense
Was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. -
Declaration of Independence
Independence was formally declared on July 2, 1776, a date that John Adams believed would be “the most memorable epocha in the history of America.”