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French Indian War
7 year war, known as a series of battles between Britain and France due to France's expansion into the Ohio river. http://www.history.com/topics/french-and-indian-warhttp://s3.amazonaws.com/libapps/accounts/22732/images/FrenchAndIndianWar.JPG -
Stamp Act
An act by British Parliament that made all American colonists pay a tax on any type of document of paper printed.
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Townshend Act
Acts given by English Parliament that limited and gave taxes on imported tea, glass, paints, lead and paper into the colonies.
http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/townshend-acts
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Boston Massacre
American Colonists gathered in Boston while the a group of protestors called the patriots protested taxation. Five people died while British officers were put on trial.
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Tea Act
Passed by British Colonists to raise the price of imported tea to help the East India Company.http://www.carolana.com/NC/Royal_Colony/Images/The_Tea_Act.jpg -
Boston Tea Party
British Parliaments Tea Act lowered the tax of tea to benefit the East India Company but the Colonists saw it as taxation tyranny and it led to an all night raid of protest.
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Intolerable Acts
Acts that were made for the purpose of punishing the colonists for creating chaos that resulted in the Boston Tea Party. They were forced to pay for tea dumped into the harbor and British soldiers no longer had to be tried for crimes committed in the colonies.
http://www.hobart.k12.in.us/gemedia/amrev/revwar/intolera.htm
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1st Continental Congress
The first continental congress for in response to the taxation that Britain imposed on the Colonists.
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2nd Continental Congress
The second Continental congress was declaring Americas Independence from Britain.
http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/the-continental-congress
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Battles of Lexington and Concord
Battles that took place after hundreds of British troops went from Boston to Concord. The British retreated and the Colonists started to win their independence.
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"Common Sense"
pamphlet published by Thomas Paine discussing his arguments for American Independence.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/thomas-paine-publishes-common-sense
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