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French/Indian War
This was a war between Britain and the French(who had an alliance with American Indians) caused by the fact both wanted to expand their North American colonies into the land known as the Ohio Territory. The act of William Pitt becoming an authority for the British gave them an advantage of having resources to therefore defeat French forts. The Treaty of Paris, signed in 1763 by French ended the war.
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Stamp Act
The British Parliament enforced a new tax on Americans on all printed materials. The Americans and colonists rebelled against this act with huge mobs and protest because it was issued by the British to gain authority. Patrick Henry displayed several resolutions for this act and Franklin issued a speech all to enforce a repeal this act. Finally, before the rebellions got to out of control the Stamp Act was repealed in February 1766.
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Townshend Act
These acts were a variety of laws introduced by the British government that removed freedoms from the colonists as well issued them more taxes. The Americans and colonists rebelled against act because they disagreed with overall way it was issued.
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Boston Massacre
The argument between the colonists not agreeing with the Townshend laws made by British lead to angry mob of colonists appearing at the British Custom House. The crowd of colonists grew larger and more violent leading to many fires shot.
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Tea Act
This act was passed by the British Parliament to provide the East India Tea Company to take control of trade in tea within the colonies. Again the colonists did not agree with this act because they thought this act was another way for the Parliament to gain power on colony government.
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Boston Tea Party
This event served as a protest by the colonists against the British. The colonists dressed as Indians and boarded three trade ships in the Boston Harbor to throw 300 plus chests of tea into the water. The protest was triggered by the fact the colonists did not agree with the new tax on tea.
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Intolerable Acts
These acts were issued by the British Parliament in an effort to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party incident. The last act was the Quebec Act to try and extend land and put independence of colonies in jeopardy.
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1st Continental Congress
This congress, led by Peyton Randolph, consisted of all colony representatives, except Georgia, who met up in Philadelphia to talk about the unfair ideas of the Intolerable Acts. This discussion lead to an American boycott because King George the third did not respond to their effort to stop the acts.
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Lexington and Concord
The British army traveled to Lexington on a mission to capture Samuel Adams and John Hancock. A single gunshot went off by an unknown side, causing an outbreak of war. At battle of Concord, British wished to ruin American weapons which resulted in a British loss due to being outsmarted by American military.
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2nd Contentinental Congress
In this Congress Georgia joined allowing for all colonies to be represented. This meeting took place in Independence Hall and was issued to form an army to fight the British because of the battles in the months in between the first congress meeting. This meeting was lead almost like a government.
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Publishing of Commom Sense
Paine published this piece of work that displayed his opinion for freedom from England as well as the act to form a democratic republic. His clever and easy understandable word choice lead to the agreement of many citizens for this work.
http://www.ushistory.org/us/10f.asp
