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French Indian War
Conflict in war between Great Britain and France -
The Stamp Act
An imposed tax on printed material -
The Boston Massacre
An incident in which British armies shot and killed 5 people -
The Tea Act
A group of Sons of Liberty dressed as Indians and destroyed over 92,000 pounds of British tea -
The Boston Tea Party
A political protest, where colonists threw 342 chests of British tea into the harbor -
Intolerable Acts
A series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament -
First Continental Congress
A meeting of delegates from 12 of the Thirteen Colonies -
Second Continental Congress
A convention of the delegates of the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in spring -
Lexington and Concord
They were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War -
The Publishing of Common Sense
A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine advocating the independence from Great Britain -
The Declaration of Independence
The Continental Congress creates a committee to draft The Declaration of Independence -
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The Townshend Act
A series of British Acts of Parliament passed relating to the British American colonies in North America
