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French and Indian war
<a href='http://http://www.history.com/topics/french-and-indian-war' >The French and Indian war is also known as the seven year war, this new world conflict marked another chapter in a long impirial struggle between britian and france. When France's expansion into the ohio river valley brought repeated confilict with the claims of the british colony. -
Stamp Act
An act of the british parliment in 1756 that exated revenue from the american colonies by imposting a stamp duy on the newspapers and legal commerical documents. colonal oppisition led to act's repeal in 1766. -
proclamation 1763
The proclamation was ordered october 7, 1763 by king George the the third following the great britians acquisition of the french territory in North america after the end of the french and indian war. -
townshend
A series of measures introduced into the english parliament by chancellar of the excheauer charles towhshend in 1767, the townshend acts imposed duties of glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea, impoted into the colonies townshend hoped the acts would defray the colonies. -
Boston massacre
The boston massacre was a street fight on march 5, 1770 between a patriot mob throwing snowballs, stones, and sicks and a squad of british soldiers several of them were killd and this led to a campain by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizen. -
The tea act
the tea act was the final straw in series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by britian on her american colonies. The policy ignited a "powder keg" of oppisition and resement among american colonist and was calayst of the boston tea party. -
boston tea party
The boston tea part was initally reffered to by john adams as the destruction of tea in boston was politcaly protested by the sons of liberty in boston on december 16,1773 -
intolerable acts
The intolerable acts was the american patriots term for a series of punitive laws passed by the british parliament in 1774 after the boston tea party. they were meant to punish massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing large tea shipments in bosto harbor. In great britian these laws were refeffered to as the coercive acts. -
Lexington and Concord
The First Military engagements. The battles arked the outbreak of opened armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britian and the 13 Colonies. -
Declaration of Independence
The declaration of independance served the political connections between the origioal 13 colonies and great britian.
