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French and Indian war starts
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The end of the French and Indian War
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Proclamation of 1763
In 1763, at ethe end of the French and Indian War, the British issued a proclamation. It has become one of the cornerstones of Native American law in the United States.
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Stamp Act
Parliament required all legal documents, newspapers and pamphlets required to use watermarked, or stamped paper on which a levy was placed.
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Townshend Revenue Act
Duties on tea, glass, lead, paper and paint to help pay for the administration of the colonies, named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. John Dickinson publishes Letter from a Philadelphian Farmer in protest. Colonial assemblies condemn taxation without representation.
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Boston Massacre
A crowd began harassing a group of soldiers guarding the customs house; a soldier was knocked down by a snowball and discharged his musket, sparking a volley into the crowd which kills five civilians.
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Tea Act
Parliament exempted its tea from import duties and allowed the Company to sell its tea directly to the colonies. Americans resented what they saw as an indirect tax subsidising a British company.
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Boston Tea Party
American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians dump 9,000 of East India Company tea into the Boston harbour.
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Intolerable Acts
Four measures which stripped Massachusetts of self-government and judicial independence following the Boston Tea Party. The colonies responded with a general boycott of British goods.
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Decloration of Independance
It was 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.
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