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Start French and Indian War
http://www.history.com/topics/french-and-indian-warKnown as the Seven Years' War. Frances expansion into Ohio River Valley began a series of Wars between Britain and France. -
End of French and Indian War
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1750-1775/french-indian-war Ended with the Treaty of Paris. -
Proclamation of 1763
http://www.history.com/news/remembering-the-proclamation-of-1763 King George lll issued a procalamation that forbid colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains -
Stamp Act
http://www.history.org/history/teaching/tchcrsta.cfm The new tax required all American colonist to pay for every printed piece of paper they used. -
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Boston Massacre
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/massacre.htm British troops were supposed to keep order agianst the Townshed act, but instead caused outrage. -
Tea Act
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/teaact.htm The leaders of America found reason to think that the act was a plan to buy popular support for taxes. -
Boston Tea Party
http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/boston-tea-party Merchants in Boston refused to give in to Patriots pressure. Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty snuck in three ships and threw out 342 chest of tea. -
Intolerable Acts
http://www.ushistory.org/us/9g.asp Parliment was fed up with colonial acts. After the Boston Tea Party, nobody came forth to take responcibility. So someone had to pay. -
Lexington and Concord
http://www.ushistory.org/us/11c.asp Britains General Gage had a secret plan to capture Samuel Adams and John Hancock. -
Declaration of Independencs
http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/declaration-of-independence Began because of conflict between American colonist and British soldiers. This was the birth of American Independence.
