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French and Indian War
It was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War. -
Proclamation of 1763
was issued by the British at the end of the French and Indian War to appease Native Americans by checking the encroachment of European settlers on their lands. . -
Sugar act
A law passed by the British Parliament in 1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies -
Stamp Act
was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used -
Quartering Act
On this day in 1765, Parliament passes the Quartering Act, outlining the locations and conditions in which British soldiers are to find room and board in the American colonies. -
Townshend Act
a series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies in 1767. They placed new taxes and took away some freedoms from the colonists including the following: New taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea. -
Boston Massacre
a small British army detachment that was threatened by mob harassment opened fire and killed five people. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was a British Law, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain it was designed to bail out the British East India Company and expand the company's monopoly on the tea trade to all British Colonies, selling excess tea at a reduced price. -
Boston Tea Party
Angered by the Tea Acts, American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians dump £9,000 of East India Company tea into the Boston harbour. -
Coercive Acts
(known in America as the Intolerable Acts) were passed by the British Parliament in 1774 as punishment for the destruction wrought during the Boston Tea Party, which was a reaction to the British tea tax of 1773 -
First Continental congress
a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States. A plan was proposed to create a Union of Great Britain and the Colonies, but the delegates rejected it. -
Shot Heard Around The World
The shots fired at British troops during the Battle of Concord marked America’s first victory against the powerful British army, which in turn sparked the Revolutionary War and lead to America’s independence. -
Second Continental congress
was a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America which united in the American Revolutionary -
Common Sense
was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonie -
Declaration of Independence
is one of the most important documents in the history of the United States. It was an official act taken by all 13 American colonies in declaring independence from British rule.