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The French and Indian War
The French and the British were fighting over the Ohio River Valley -
The Stamp Act
The British placed a tax on all paper goods -
Sons and Daughters of Liberty
The Sons and Daughters of Liberty were formed to protest British taxes -
Quartering Act
American colonists were forced to house British soldiers in their own homes. -
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Townshend Acts
A series of British Acts of Parliament relating to the British in North America -
The Tea Act
Was not a tax - gave British the right to sell tea in the colonies -
The Boston Tea Party
Colonists protested the tax on tea by dumping all of the British tea in the harbor -
Intolerable Acts
Laws set by the British meant to punish them for rebelling during the Boston Tea Party -
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Continental Congress
A convention of delegates to guide the thirteen colonies -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
The battle that started the Revolutionary War