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First Navigation Laws
The Navigation Acts were efforts to put the theory of mercantilism into actual practice. Beginning in 1650, Parliament acted to combat the threat of the rapidly growing Dutch carrying trade.
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Board of Trade Assumes Governance of Colonies
a committee of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, originating as a committee of inquiry in the 17th century and evolving gradually into a government department with a diverse range of functions.
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Seven Year's War ends
a major military conflict that lasted from 1756 until the conclusion of the treaties of Paris (signed on 10 February 1763) and Hubertusburg (signed on 15 February 1763). It involved all of the major European powers of the period.
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Sugar Act
also known as the American Revenue Act or the American Duties Act, was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on April 5, 1764.
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Stamp Act Quartering Act Stamp Act Congress
Stamp Act of 1765 (short title Duties in American Colonies Act 1765; 5 George III, c. 12) was a direct tax imposed by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America.
Quartering Act is the name of at least two 18th-century acts of the Parliament of Great Britain.
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Stamp Act Congress was a meeting on October 19, 1765 in New York City of representatives from among the Thirteen Colonies.
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Declaratory Act
The Declaratory Act was a declaration by the British Parliament in 1766 which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act.
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Townshend Act New York Legislature
were a series of laws passed beginning in 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America.
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British Troops Occupy Boston
The Boston campaign was the opening campaign of the American Revolutionary War.
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Boston Massacre. Tea Tax Repealed.
also known as the Boston riot, was an incident that led to the deaths of five civilians at the hands of British troops on March 5, 1770, the legal aftermath of which helped spark the rebellion in some of the British American colonies, which culminated in the American Revolutionary War.
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Committees of Correspondence Formed
were shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of American Revolution.
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British East India Company granted tea monopoly Governor Hutchinson's actions provoke BostonTea Party
In 1773 Parliament passed the Tea Act, which gave the English East India Company a chance to avert bankruptcy by granting a monopoly on the importation of tea into the colonies.
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Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts or the Coercive Acts are names used to describe a series of five laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Britain's colonies in North America. The acts triggered outrage and resistance in the Thirteen Colonies that later became the United States, and were important developments in the growth of the American Revolution. -
First Continental Congress calls for abolition of slave trade
It was the British government that began the abolition of the slave trade during the years,1822 - 1826 . This was because of the pressure by various groups based on different factors. -
Battles ofLexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.[9][10] They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston.
