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Begining of French and Indian war
http://www.history.com/topics/french-and-indian-warThe war between the French and Idian began on may 28,1756 .The war is known as the seven year war. The new conflict between them The French and Indian War was a conflict between the American colonists and the French over control of the Ohio Valley and the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers—modern day Pittsburgh. It received its title because the war was Britain and its colonies fighting against the French and their Indian allies. -
End of French and idian war
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1750-1775/treaty-of-paris The treaty of paris ended the war between the french and idians. They came to a agreement that Because of the treaty france had to give up all its territory in mainland North America, effectively ending any foreign military threat to the British colonies there. -
The proclamation
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/proc63.htm
The proclamation effected the close off of the frontier to colonial expansition after the french and indian war The King and his council presented the proclamation as a measure to calm the fears of the Indians -
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TOWNSHEND ACTS
http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/townshend-actsTownshend Act constituted an attempt by the British government to consolidate fiscal and political power over the American colonies by placing import taxes on many of the British products bought by Americans, including lead, paper, paint, glass and tea -
The Boston Massacre
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/massacre.htm street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. -
The tea act
The Tea Act was the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on her American colonies. The policy ignited a “powder keg” of opposition and resentment among American colonists and was the catalyst of the Boston Tea Party. -
Boston Tea party
The Boston Tea Party (initially referred to by John Adams as "the Destruction of the Tea in Boston") was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. -
Lexington and Concord
During the wee hours of April 19, 1775, he would send out regiments of British soldiers quartered in Boston. Their destinations were LEXINGTON, where they would capture Colonial leaders Sam Adams and John Hancock, then CONCORD, where they would seize gunpowder. -
Declaration of Independence
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
