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was a conflict between Britain and France over New World territory between the years 1754–63.
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The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies
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After Britain won the Seven Years' War and gained land in North America, it issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which prohibited American colonists from settling west of Appalachia.
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an act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents.
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the Quartering Act, outlining the locations and conditions in which British soldiers are to find room and board in the American colonies.
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was a law that attempted to curb the smuggling of sugar and molasses in the colonies by reducing the previous tax rate and enforcing the collection of duties
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where a series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies in 1767.
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was a deadly riot that occurred on March 5, 1770, on King Street in Boston. It began as a street brawl between American colonists and a lone British soldier, but quickly escalated to a chaotic, bloody slaughter.
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was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts
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were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party.
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The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States.
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord fought on April 19, 1775, kicked off the American Revolutionary War (1775-83).