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The French and Indian War
In 1754, the French built Fort Questioned where the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers joined to form the Ohio River (in today’s Pittsburgh), making it a strategically important stronghold that the British repeatedly attacked. -
the Boston tea party
In the 1760, Britain was deep in debt, so British Parliament imposed a series of taxes on American colonists to help pay those debts. -
The Proclamation of 1763
In the United States, the Royal Proclamation of 1763 ended with the American Revolutionary War because Great Britain ceded the land in question to the United States in the Treaty of Paris (1783). -
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The Proclamation of 1763
Proclamation of 1763, proclamation declared by the British crown at the end of the French and Indian War in North America, mainly intended to conciliate the Native Americans by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands. -
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sugar Act
The sugar act 1764, also known as the american revenue act 1764 of the american duties act, was a revenue-raising act passed by the parliament of great Britain on 5 April 1764. -
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sugar Act
On April 5, 1764, Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act 1733, which was about to expire. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses. -
sugar Act
sugar act was a low that attempted to curb the smuggling of sugar and molasses in the colonies by reducing the collection of duties. -
The Boston Massacre
The event was heavily publicized by leading Patriots such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams. -
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The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre, known to the British as the Incident on King Street, was a confrontation on March 5, 1770 in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. -
Boston Blockade
On this day in 1774, British Parliament passes the Boston Port Act, closing the port of Boston and demanding that the city’s residents pay for the nearly $1 million worth. -
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The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. -
intolerable acts
The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British to the detriment of colonial goods. -
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Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. -
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Continental Congress
The Continental Congress was initially a convention of delegates from a number of British American colonies at the height of the American Revolution, who acted collectively for the people of the Thirteen Colonies that ultimately became the United States of America. -
Continental Congress
the Congress declared, then it would reconvene on May 10, 1775, and the colonies would cease to export goods to Britain on September 10, 1775. -
The Declaration of Independence
The United States Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776. -
Taxes
taxes in the United States goes back to the Civil War, when Abraham Lincoln signed into law the nation's first-ever tax on personal income to help pay for the Union war effort.
