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French and Indian War
The North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France also known as the Seven Years’ War. The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain territorial gains in North America, but disputes over frontier policy and paying the war’s expenses led to colonial discontent.
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Albany Plan of Union
Plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. On July 10, 1754, representatives from seven of the British North American colonies adopted the plan. Suggested by Benjamin Franklin, then a senior leader and a delegate from Pennsylvania.
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Proclamation of 1763
At the end of the French and Indian War, the British issued a proclamation,mainly intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands. In the centuries since the proclamation, it has become one of the cornerstones of Native American law in the United States and Canada.
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Sugar Act
The Sugar Act was designed to raise revenue from the American colonists in the 13 colonies.The Act set a tax on sugar and molasses imported into the colonies which impacted the manufacture of rum in New England.
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Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament.The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed.
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Quartering Act
The Quartering Acts were two British Laws, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain 1765 and 1774, that were designed to force local colonial governments to provide provisions and housing to British soldiers stationed in the 13 Colonies of America.
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Stamp Act Congress
The Stamp Act Congress, or First Congress of the American Colonies, was a meeting held between October 7 and 25, 1765 in New York City. The men who attended the meeting consisted of representatives from 9 of the British Colonies in North America. The objective of the representatives was to devise a unified protest against new British taxation, specifically the Stamp Act of 1765.
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Repeal of the Stamp Act
The colonists, who had convened the Stamp Act Congress in October 1765 to vocalize their opposition to the impending enactment, greeted the arrival of the stamps with outrage and violence. Most Americans called for a boycott of British goods, and some organized attacks on the customhouses and homes of tax collectors. After months of protesting, and an appeal by Benjamin Franklin, Parliament voted to repeal the Stamp Act in March.
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Declaratory Act
The Declaratory Act of 1766 was a British Law, passed in March by the Parliament of Great Britain, that was passed at the same time that the Stamp Act was repealed. The colonists celebrated the repeal of the Stamp Act and their political victory but the the passing of the Declaratory Act was the beginning of more trouble.
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Townshend Act
The Townshend Acts of 1767 were a series of laws which set new import taxes on British goods including paint, paper, lead, glass and tea .The laws were not a direct tax, but a tax on imports and used revenues to maintain British troops in America and to pay the salaries of some Royal officials who were appointed to work in the American colonies.
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Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars. Between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers, it was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appered in Massachusetts.
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Boston Tea Party
A pre-revolutionary incident that occurred on December 16, 1773. The Boston Tea Party was a direct protest by colonists in Boston against the Tea Tax that had been imposed by the British government. Boston patriots, dressed as Mohawk Indians, raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped 342 containers of tea into the harbor. The Boston Tea Party arose from the resentment of Boston colonists.
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Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts, also called the Restraining Acts and the Coercive Acts, were a series of British Laws, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain 1774. Four of the Intolerable Acts were specifically aimed at punishing the Massachusetts colonists for the actions taken in the incident known as the Boston Tea Party. The fifth of the Intolerable Acts series was related to Quebec was seen as an additional threat to the liberty and expansion of the colonies.
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Quebec Act
The Quebec Act was passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on June 22, 1774. The Quebec Act was designed to extend the boundaries of Quebec and guaranteed religious freedom to Catholic Canadians.
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First Continental Congress
A meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.
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Battle of Lexington and Concord
Th Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, kicked off the American Revolutionary War .Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities. On the night of April 18, 1775, hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cach.
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Treaty of Paris
A treaty of 1783 between the US, Britain, France, and Spain, ending the War of American Independence.The 1783 Peace Treaty of Paris was one of several treaties concluding the American Revolutionary War and signed by representatives of Great Britain on one side and the United States, France, and Spain.
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