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French and Indian War
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'' This New World conflict marked another chapter in the long imperial struggle between Britain and France. At the peace conference in 1763, the British received Canada from France and Florida from Spain, but permitted France to keep its West Indian sugar islands and gave Louisiana to Spain. '' -
Proclamation of 1776
'' After the conclusion of the French and Indian War in America, the British Empire began to tighten control over its rather autonomous colonies. The edict forbade private citizens and colonial governments alike to buy land from or make any agreements with natives; the empire would conduct all official relations. ''
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Sugar Act
'' The American Revenue Act of 1764, so called Sugar Act, was a law that attempted to curb the smuggling of sugar and molasses in the colonies. The goal of this law was threefold. ''
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Stamp Act
'' The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British government. The Seven Years’ War (1756-63) ended the long rivalry between France and Britain for control of North America, leaving Britain in possession of Canada and France without a footing on the continent.''
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Quartering Act
'' The Quartering Act of 1765 required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies. In Massachusetts, where barracks already existed on an island from which soldiers had no hope of keeping the peace in a city riled by the Townshend Revenue Acts, British officers followed the Quartering Act’s injunction to quarter their soldiers in public places, not in private homes.''
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Townshend act
'' The Townshend Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. In 1770, Parliament repealed all the Townshend duties except the tax on tea, leading to a temporary truce between the two sides in the years before the American Revolution.''
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Boston Massacre
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'' A squad of British soldiers, come to support a sentry who was being pressed by a heckling, snowballing crowd, let loose a volley of shots. The British troops had been billeted in Boston in October 1768 after repeated requests from British customs officials, who had been harassed and intimidated because of their efforts to enforce the Townshend Acts. '' -
Coercive acts
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'' The aim of the legislation was to restore order in Massachusetts and punish Bostonians for their Tea Party, in which members of the revolutionary-minded Sons of Liberty boarded three British tea ships in Boston Harbor and dumped 342 crates of tea—nearly $1 million worth in today’s money—into the water to protest the Tea Act.'' -
Tea act
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''The Tea Act of 1773 was one of several measures imposed on the American colonists by the heavily indebted British government in the decade leading up to the American Revolutionary War (1775-83). The British government granted the company a monopoly on the importation and sale of tea in the colonies.'' -
Boston Tea Party
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'' This famed act of American colonial defiance served as a protest against taxation. The first tea ship, Dartmouth, reached Boston November 27, and two more arrived shortly thereafter. '' -
First Continental Congress
'' The First Continental Congress, which was comprised of delegates from the colonies, met in 1774 in reaction to the Coercive Acts, a series of measures imposed by the British government on the colonies in response to their resistance to new taxes. ''
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Second Continental Congress
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-us-history/period-3/apush-the-american-revolution/a/the-second-continental-congress
'' The Second Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia in the summer of 1775, shortly after the war with the British had begun. On July 4, 1776, the Congress issued the Declaration of Independence, which for the first time asserted the colonies’ intention to be fully independent of the mother country. '' -
Shot heard around the world
http://historyofmassachusetts.org/where-did-the-shot-heard-round-the-world-happen/
'' The shot heard round the world took place on April 19, 1775 after British troops searching for ammunition stockpiles in Concord encountered the local minutemen. The battle came to be known as the Battle of Concord. '' -
Declaration of Independence
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'' When armed conflict between bands of American colonists and British soldiers began in April 1775, the Americans were ostensibly fighting only for their rights as subjects of the British crown '' -
Common Sense
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'' On this day in 1776, writer Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet “Common Sense,” setting forth his arguments in favor of American independence. At the time Paine wrote “Common Sense,” most colonists considered themselves to be aggrieved Britons. '' -
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.