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French and Indian war
The French and Indian War was signifigant war fought in the American Colonies. The British gained territory in North America as a result of the war. This war lasted from 1754-1763. Read more at: https://www.ducksters.com/history/colonial_america/french_and_indian_war.php -
Proclamation of 1763
British Parliament passed a law called The Proclamation of 1763. The Proclamation was an attempt to create a western border of the 13 colonies in the US. The border is known as the Appalachian Mountains.
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Sugar Act
This 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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Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was a tax forced by the British government on the American colonies.The main goal was to raise money needed for military defenses of the colonies.
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Quartering Act
The Quartering Act required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies.
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Townshend Act
The Townshend Acts were a series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies in 1767. Creating new taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea, http://www.ducksters.com/history/american_revolution/townshend_acts.php -
Boston Massacre
Boston opened fire on a group of American colonists killing five men. The event before this one (Townshend Act) basically led to the massacre.
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Tea Act
American colonists could buy no tea unless it came ftom The East Indian Company. The reason is because The East Indian Company wasn't doing so well, and the British wanted to give it some more business. The American colonists would have to pay a lot more money to buy from a different company. Their response was to refuse to unload the tea from the ships.
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Boston Tea Party
Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard.
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First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress brought together representatives from each of the colonies, except Georgia, to discuss their response to the British Coercive acts.
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Coercive Acts
Upset by the Boston Tea Party and other blatant acts of destruction of British property by American colonists, the British Parliament enacts this act.
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Second Continental Congress
On May 10, 1775, the members of the Second Continental Congress met at the State House in Philadelphia.
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The shot heard around the world
The Shot Heard Round the World occurred during a brief battle between British troops and local minutemen at the North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts during the Revolutionary War. http://historyofmassachusetts.org/where-did-the-shot-heard-round-the-world-happen/ -
Common Sense
Common Sense was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.
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Declaration of Independence
The thirteen American colonies regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.
https://kidskonnect.com/history/declaration-of-independence/