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In 1754 Washington's surprise attack upon a small French force at Jamonville Glen. His subsequent surrender to Forces at the battle of Fort Necessity helped to spark the French and Indian war.
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The proclamation of 1763 was issued by the British at the end of the French and Indian war. It created a boundary known as the proclamation line.
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During the British legislation, they traded sugar and molasses. The sugar act was a revenue-raising act passed by the parliament of great Britain on 5 April 1764
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The act was paused on on march 22, 1765.
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The Townshend acts were a series of measures, passes by the British parliament in 1767. But American colonists saw the acts as abuse of power.
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British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston.
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The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773.
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Were punitive laws passes by the British parliament in 1774 after the Boston tea party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea party protest in reaction to changes in taxation.
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Was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the untied states.
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The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive.