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French and Indian War (1754-1763)
colonies of British America against those of New France, each side supported by military units from the parent country and by American Indian allies -
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Pontiac's Rebellion
indians against the british police -
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Currency Act (september 1, 1764)
A act made by parliament to reduce the amount of paper money in the colonies -
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Stamp Act (March 1765)
an act of parliament that taxed all printed material -
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Quartering Act (May 1765)
parliament mad 2 acts that forced americans to give british soldiers a place to live and things to eat. -
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Colonist formed Sons of Liberty
A group of people made of the thirteen colonies to fight against the british parliament -
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Declaratory Act (March, 18 1766)
an act by parliament that accompanied the stamp act -
Boston Massacre
a mob throwing snowballs at the british army ended in the mob being obliterated by gun fire -
Boston Tea Party
A political protest that occurred due to the high taxes on tea -
Tea Act
raises the taxes on tea -
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
laws passed by the british parliament in 1774 after the boston tea party -
1st Continental Congress
delegates of 12 from the 13 colonies that became the united states -
Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty or give me death" speech
Delegate Patrick Henry presented resolutions to raise and establish a militia, and to put Virginia in a posture of defense -
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Battles at Lexington and Concord
the first military battle of the revolutionary war -
Quebec Act
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Second Continental Congress
at the virginia convention -
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Battle of Bunker Hill
during the siege of boston before the revolutionary war -
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Albany Plan of Union
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Common Sense by Thomas Paine
a pamphlet made to advocate independence from great britain -
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Sugar Act ( April,5 1764)
British parliament aimed to end the sugar and molasses smuggling from france -
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Townshend Act (June 15 1767)
a new law that took certain freedoms and added more taxes to the colonists
