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French & Indian War Begins
Britain and France fought over land in North America. Britain won. -
French & Indian War Ends
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Proclamation of 1763
Prohibited American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains. Also granted Britain a great deal of North American Land. -
Stamp Act
Required colonists to pay a tax on every piece of printed papaer -
Townshend Acts
Series of laws, placed new taxes and took away some freedoms from the colonists. -
Quartering Act
Required the colonists to house British soldiers. -
Tea Act
Granted the company the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies without landing it in England first. -
Boston Tea Party
Political protest in Boston where colonists dressed up as native americans and dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor. The colonists were mad at the excessive taxes. -
Coercive Acts
5 Acts. 4 were passed as reprisal for the rebellion -
Boston Massacre
British soldiers opened fire on a group of American colonists, killing 5 men. The colonists harassed the soldiers because the British imposed taxes on tea, glass, paper, pain and lead. -
Sugar Act
Taxed goods like sugar, coffee and cloth. Colonists had no say so because there were no representatives in Parliament. -
First Continental Congress
A meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States. -
Shot Heard Around the World
Phrase referring to the opening of the American Revolutionary War. -
Second Continental Congress
Meeting to organize a continental army -
Common Sense
Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the 13 colonies -
Declaration of Independence
Document declaring independence from British rule.