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French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was a seven-year-long war between Britain and France. When the French lost the war, the Treaty of Paris was made and it gave Britain control of Canada and part of French Teritories
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End of French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was the North American conflict that was part of a conflict between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War. The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. -
Proclamation of 1763
After Britain won the Seven Years' War and gained land in North America, it issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which made sure that American colonists didn't settle west of the Appalachians. http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/proc63.htm -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was when the british was taxing the colonist on every piece of printed paper they purchesed in America. http://www.history.org/history/teaching/tchcrsta.cfm -
Townshend Acts
This was when the british was taxing on everything other than tea.
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Boston Massacre
English troops fired on settlers & killed 5 on March 5, 1770. When the settlers were tezing English soldiers by throwing rocks at them. because they were very angry about the Townsend Acts. http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/massacre.htm -
Boston Tea Party
England taxed America. Americans thought it was unfair. Americans dressed up like Indians and dumped all of the tea from England into the harbor. http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/boston-tea-party -
Tea Act
The Tea Act 1773 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. Its principal over objective was to lower the big amount of tea held by the poor British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/teaact.htm -
Intolerable Acts
A series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for t throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor.http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/intolerable.htm -
Lexington and Concord
The battle of Lexington happend when a British army of 700 men from Boston were ordered to take weapons from a town in Concord. The British fired on a group of minutemen in Lexington, thousands of minutemen came to help and the british had to fight hard to get back to Boston
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End of Boston Tea Party
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Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson and adopted by the Second Continental Congress, it states the reasons the British colonies of North America wanted independence
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration.html
