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french and indian war
pitted the colonies of british America against those of new france -
proclaimation of 1763
forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian mountains -
boston tea party
a political protest by the sons of liberty in boston -
sugar act
merchants were required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon -
stamp act
tax on all paper -
quartering act
to provide the british soldiers with any needed accommodations and housing -
townshend act
imposed duties on glass,lead,paints,paper and tea imported into the colonies -
boston massacre
the incident on king street by british, british army soldiers shot and killed people while under attack by a mob -
committees of correspondence
rallied colonial opposition against british policy and establishe union among the thirteen colonies -
tea act
to reduce the massiveamount of tea held by the financially troubled british east india company -
intolerable acts
were harsh laws passed by the brish parliament -
first continental congress
meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies -
second continental congress
managed the colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence -
common sense
advocating independence from great Britain to people in the thirteen colonies -
lexington and concord
first military engagements of the American revolutionary war -
declaration of independence
freedom of the thirteen American colonies from great Britain