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French and Indian War starts
The French and Indian War was a major war that took place in the United States. The people fighting in the war were the French, the British, Native Americans, and us.
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French and Indian War ends
The french and Indian war ended in 1763. It officialy ended with the signing of The Treaty of Paris.
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Proclamation of 1763
This was a royal proclamation issued by King George III. It followed Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the French and Indian War ended. But the Americans wanted the land.
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Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed by the British specifically for the British Americans. This angered the people of North America majorly.
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Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts were originated by Charles Townshend.They were designed to collect revenue from the colonist in America.That made them angry, wanting their own freedom.
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Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was happened when some British soldiers killed unarmed civilians. When we heard about the event it caused tension through out America. This event is vieewed as foreshadowing to the American Revolutionary War.
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Tea Act
This act wasn't intended to raise revenue in America but to prop up the East India Company. The Americans thought other wise. The Americans didn't buy any tea and made the British seem even worse.
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Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts, also known as the Coercive Acts, are a series of laws passed by the British. The acts triggered outrage in the Thirteen Colonies\ the United States. It was important to the development to the American Revolution.
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Boston Tea Party
The Tea party was the culmination of a resistance movement though British Americaagainst the TeaAct which had been passed by the British Parliment in 1773. The Boston tea Party was a key event in thegrowth of the American Revolution.
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Lexington and Concord
The Baattles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles marked the outbreak of the British and the thirteen colonies.
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Declaration of Independance
The Declaration of Indeendance was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress, which announced that the thirteen american colonies regarded themselves as independant states and no longer a part of the British Empire.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence
