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End of the French & Indian War
Treaty of Paris helps end the French & Indian War, which the English get French Terrority.
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Sugar Act
he Sugar Act was clearly an attempt to reassert British authority, and, taking it together with the high-handed use of admiralty courts and the 1764 Currency Act, which forbade the colonies from issuing paper money to pay the duties, some colonists could discern a concerted plan to bring them more closely under British administration.
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Stamp Tax
England issued the Stamp Tax against the colonists, requiring them to pay a tax for all printed documents.
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Quartering Act
British troops must be given housing on demand from colonists.
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Declaratory Act
Parliment declares sovereignty over colonies in all cases.
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Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts.
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Townshend Acts
Includes duties on new items including tea, glass and other goods available in the Western Hemisphere
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Tea Act
East India Tea Company granted sole right to sell tea directly to Americans; some duties on tea reduced
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Boston Tea Party
British soldiers and people of Boston who were protesting taxes began to fight and several Bostonians were killed in this, The Boston Massacre. Then England enacted another tea tax and The Sons of Liberty activist group in Boston hijacked a British tea ship and dumped its cargo into the sea at Boston Harbor. This is known as the Boston Tea Party in 1773.
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Intolerable Acts
England immediately issued the Intolerable Acts, authorizing British officials to take all means necessary to control the Colonies. The Colonists formed the Continental Congress and began to revolt.
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Prohibitory Act
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Declaration of Independence
was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence
