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Known as the Seven years war, The French and Indian war, where the British and French fighting for the colonies, ultimately the British won. Not only did they have control of the 13 colonies, but they took control over more land with their win over the French. -
Stamp Act was the first internal tax directly on American colonists by the British parliament. This act was imposed on all paper documents in the colonies. This was after the British were in debt from the "Seven year war" -
This Act was to assert authority of the British government to tax the colonies after the Stamp Act was repealed. -
The Townshend Acts initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. This lead to colonist to discourage the purchase of British goods. -
British troops in Boston got into a confrontation with the colonists, One of the colonist hit a red coat with a club, starting the massacre, five men were killed. -
Political protest, where Colonist dumped British Tea into the waters for imposing taxation without representation. -
The Intolerable Acts were of series of laws that punished the colonists, Closing most of the Boston port and more. -
This Act made it to where Great Britain would be able to house british troops in American barracks and public houses. -
This kicked off the American Revolutionary war, hundreds of british troops marched to Concord to seize an arms cache, Colonist caught on and then the fighting had started. British troops then began retreating under intense fire. -
This was a meeting between the colonies to become independent from Britain and becomes it own nation. -
Common sense was a 47 page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine, advocating independence from Great Britain. -
The DOI is the document that declared America independence from Great Britain