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The French and Indian War was in 1754–1763 was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire. -
The Stamp Act 1765, was known as the Duties in American Colonies Act 1765, they were an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. -
Declaratory Act was the declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. -
Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, that has taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, tea and more stuff. -
On March 5, 1770, the British soldiers fired upon a group of rowdy colonists, killing five and hurting others. -
The Coercive Acts were known as the Intolerable Acts in the American colonies and were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and the mercantile protest on December 16, 1773. -
The last act passed was the Quartering Act of 1774 which did not apply just to Massachusetts. -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were some of the leading military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
The Second Continental Congress met on May 10, 1775, they planned further responses if the British government did not repeal the acts. -
Common Sense is a 47 page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776. From Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. -
Declaration of Independence is the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain.