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A treaty was signed on this day in Paris officially ending the French and Indian wars, ceding all French possessions in North America to England.
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The sugar act was passed by British, causing sugar to be heavily taxed
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This act let the British soldiers come into colonists homes and take things and live there against their will.
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All government papers need to be printed in Britain, and are taxed extra.
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A series of acts named the Townshend Acts are passed
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The Boston massacre happened, killing 5 people.
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The committees of correspondence were shadow governments set up by Patriots
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A tax was put in by the British government on tea.
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The colonists threw large amounts of British tea into the Boston harbor in protest of the tea act
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The intolerable acts are passed In response to the Boston tea party
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The first continental congress meeting starts.
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The second Continental Congress meeting starts.
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The battles of Lexington and concord happen, starting the revolutionary war.
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Thomas Paine publishes his book “common sense”
