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French and indian War
the colonies of British American against those of New France. http://www.ushistory.org/us/8b.asp -
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Proclamation of 1763
At the end of the French and Indian War, the British issued a proclamation,mainly intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands. https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/1763-proclamation-of -
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Sugar Act
discourage colonial merchants and manufactures from smuggling non-british goods to void taxs imposed by parliment. http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/sugaract.html -
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Stamp Act
The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/stamp-act -
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Quartering Act 1765
British troops could enter and live in your home without your say. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/parliament-passes-the-quartering-act -
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Townshend Act
parliment gave the commisioners the power to search homes and private warehouses for smuggled items that had entered the colonies without payment of the customs duties. https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/townshend-acts -
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Boston Massacre
American colonists and a lone British soldier,but quickly escalated to a chaotic, bloody slaughter https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/boston-massacre -
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Tea Act
purpose was to not to raise revenue from colonies but to bail out the floundering East India company, a key actor in the british economy. https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/tea-act -
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Boston Tea Party
Colonist dresses up as native Americans in protest the tax from Great Britian tea into british party. https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/boston-tea-party -
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Coercive Act
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FIrst Coninental
comprised of delegates from the colonies, met in 1774 in reaction to the coercive Acts, a lot of measures imposed by thr british government on the colonies in response to thi resistance to new taxes. http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/congress.html -
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Second Continental Congress
was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the spring of 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It succeeded the First Continental Congress. http://www.ushistory.org/us/10e.asp -
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shot heard around the world
The first shot that led into the American Revolutionary War https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-shot-heard-round-the-world -
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Common Sense
apamplet advocating indenendence from Great britian to people in the thirteen colonies. http://www.ushistory.org/paine/commonsense/ -
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Declaration of Independence
American colonies served their politcal conections to Great britian, it summerized the colonists motivtations for seeking freedom. http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/