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French and Indian War
French and Indian War comprised the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War of 1756–63. It pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France -
Proclamation of 1776
Created by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement west of a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Sugar Act
A law passed by the British Parliament in 1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market. -
Quartering Act
A name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations and housing. -
Stamp Act
an act regulating stamp duty (a tax on the legal recognition of documents). -
Townshend Act
the Townshend Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
The Incident on King Street by the British, was an riot on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed several people while under attack by a mob. -
Tea Act
an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773. -
Coercive Acts
The Coercive Acts are names used to describe a series of laws relating to Britain's colonies in North America and passed by the British Parliament in 1774. -
First Continental Congress
A meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met from September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the spring of 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. -
Shot Heard Around the World
The first shots were fired just after dawn in Lexington, Massachusetts the morning of the 19th, the "Shot Heard Round the World." -
Common Sense
A hugely influential pamphlet that convinced many American colonists that the time had finally come to break away from British rule. -
Declaration of Independence
As the formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain. -
Korean War
The korean war is related to the French and indian war because they both fought over power and land -
MLK's "I have a dream " Speech
This is related to the Common Sense because both of these wanted freedom and independence