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The beginning of the French and Indian War
[http://history.state.gov/milestones/1750-1775/FrenchIndianWar ](http://<a href='http://http://history.state.gov/milestones/1750-1775/FrenchIndianWar )' >http://history.state.gov/milestones/1750-1775/FrenchIndianWar </a>
The French and Indian War was the North American conflict that was part of a larger imperial conflict between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years War. The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended in a Treaty of Paris in 1763. -
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Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was a cause for great celebrations in the colonies because it marked the end of the French and Indian war and gave more oppurtunities for land and work. It ended in the year of 1770. -
The Stamp Act
The stamp act was passed by the british Parliment on March 22, 1765 . The new tax was imposed by all American colonists. It only lasted that way. -
Townshend Acts
http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/history/townshend-acts.html It originated by Charlie Townshend and passed by the English Parliment shortly after the repeal of the Stamp Act. The British troops sent to enforcce these laws and keep peace involved in unpleasants incidents. -
Boston Masscarre
http://www.bostonmassacre.net/ The Boston Massacre was the killing of five British regular. It was the culmunation of the tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops. -
Boston Tea Party
http://www.history.com/topics/boston-tea-party' The Boston tea party took place when a group of Massachusetts Patriots, protesting the monopoly on American tea importation recently granted by the Parliament to the East India Company, seized 342 chests of tea a midnight raid on three tea ships and threw them into the harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
These were laws made to force the colonies back into the kings rule.Laws included the closing of the boston bay wich closed the bay to anyone not from Great Britan and only supplied food and fire wood, the regulation of better government in Massachusetts, any one convivted of something in the colonies could now be brought back to Great Britan, and the Quebec act wich granted land to Quebec that the American Colonist clearly wanted. -
Lexington and Concord
<a href='http://<a href='http://http://www.ushistory.org/us/11c.asp' ' ><a href='http://http://www.ushistory.org/us/11c.asp' </a> Genreal Gage of Great Britan had a secrect plan to capture the leaders of the colonist and to capture all their ammunition. Some spies and friends of the Americans leaked this information and put two lanters out to signal to the colonist that the British were attacking by sea and for them to warn the Americans that the British were coming. -
Declaration of Independence
<a href='http://<a href='http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html' ' ><a href='http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html' </a>
The declaration of Indepedence was what brought the thirteen colonies together under one leader and gave the base for laws to come.
