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French and indian war
war that was fought between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France, as well as Native American allies -
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Proclamation of 1763
Issued by King George iii following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains -
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Sugar act
was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on April 5, 1764 -
Townshend Acts
were a series of acts passed, beginning in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. -
Boston Massacre
was a street fight between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers and they fired into the crowd -
Tea Act
was the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on theAmerican colonies -
Boston Tea Party
was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. -
Intolerable Acts
were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston. -
First Continental Congress
was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.
