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French and Indian War
In North America, the war pitted France, French colonists, and their Native allies against Great Britain -
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townshend acts
The Townshend Acts were designed to raise revenue to be used in part to support colonial governors, judges, customs officers and the British army in America. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770. -
Tea Act
In a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on American colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1773, took place when a group of Massachusetts Patriots. -
Intolerable Acts
Boston Harbor until the people of Boston paid for the tea that they threw into the harbor. It went into effect on June 1, 1774 -
Lexington and Concord
Is the first battle of the American Revolution -
Declaration of Independence
the Americans were ostensibly fighting only for their rights as subjects of the British crown.