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French and Indian War
The French and Indian war was also called the Seven Years of war. The new world conflict marked a long chapter in the long imperial struggle between France and Britian. When France's expanision into the Ohio River Valley brought repeated conflict with the claims of the British colonies, A series of battles led to the official British Declaration of war in 1756.
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Proclamation of 1763
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/proc63.htm
The proclamation also established four new colonies, three of them on the continent proper. Quebec, which was already startet, two colonies to be called East Florida and West Florida and off the continent was Grenada . -
Stamp Act
http://www.history.org/history/teaching/tchcrsta.cfm
The stamp act was passed down by the British Parliment on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Somne other stuff that was taxed to was ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspaper, and even playing cards! -
Townshend Acts
http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/townshend-acts
The Townshend acts were series of acts passed. They began in 1767 by the parlement of Great Britian relating to the British colonies in North America. -
Boston Massacre
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/massacre.htmThe Boston Massacre was a street fight that occured on March 5, 1770. It all happened because a "Patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soilders! -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliement in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defience in throwing a large tea suppliment into the Boston Harbor.
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Townshend Acts
http://www.ourgeorgiahistory.com/wars/Revolution/actsofwar.html
The Townshend Acts repealed on April 12, 1770. Which meant that they stopped doing the Townshend Acts. -
Tea Act
http://www.bostonteapartyship.com/the-tea-actThe Tea Act was the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britan on the American Colonies. The policy ignited a "powder key" ofopposition and resentment among American colonist and was the catalyst of the Boston Tea Party. -
Boston Tea Party
http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/boston-tea-partyThe Boston Tea Party was an act of American colonial defiance served as a protest against taxtion. Seeking to boost the troubled East INdian COmpany, Birtish parliament adjusted importe duties with the passagers of the Ta act of 1773. On December 16, 1773 Sammueal adams and the sons of Liberty aboarded three ships in the Boston Harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard! Making this the Boston Tea Party. -
Lexington and Concord
Lexington and Concord was were the British soilders were sent out to go. But spies had told the Americans were they were headed to plant to go and attack them. When Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Dr. Sammuel Prescott galloped off to warn the countryside.
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Declaration of Independence
The Independence was formally declared on July 2, 1776, a date that John Adams believed "the most memorable epocha in the history of America." On July 4, 1776 Congress approved the final text of the Declaration. But it wasn't signed until August 2, 1776.
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/
