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French and Indian War
The French and Indian was a fight between British and the French. It was fought in North America land. This was is how british gained control of the colonies -
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Stamp Act
Required all colonists to purchase watermarked and taxed paper for the use of newspapers and legal documents. -
Sons of Liberty
A secret revolutionary organization that was founded to advance the rights of the European colonists and to fight taxation by the British. -
Townshend Act
It was passed by the British Parliament in 1767 and they taxed goods that were imported to the American colonies. -
Boston Massacre
Townshend Duties are repealed. British soldiers fired at unarmed colonists and killed eight of them. -
Boston Tea Party
Colonists dressed up as Indians and boarded a British ship and threw hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor, resulting in a big financial loss for the East India Company. -
Intolerable Acts
This act was a new law allowed a colonial governor to house British soldiers in unoccupied houses and barns. These laws were passed as a punishment of the Boston Tea party -
First Continental Congress
Delegates from each of the 13 colonies except for Georgia all got together. They met in Philadelphia to organize colonial resistance. -
Lexington and Concord
British Regulars and Minutemen exchanged fire at the two cities after the British discovered that the Colonists were storing ammunition. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was the first formal statement by a nation's people stating their right to choose their own government.
