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rebellion led by chief pontiac against british in the west
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the treaty that ended the french and Indian war. the french lost all there land in north america.the British gained the land beyond the Mississippi river.
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the rebellion lead by Pontianak ageist out west
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it required colonist to pay a tax of 6 pence.most colonist worked around it and didn´t pay
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Seeking to defray some of the costs of garrisoning the colonies, Parliament required all legal documents, newspapers and pamphlets required to use watermarked, or 'stamped' paper on which a levy was placed.
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is an act that allows people to search other people house that are suspicious to get it searched
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Colonial assemblies required to pay for supplies to British garrisons. The New York assembly argued that it could not be forced to comply.
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Parliament finalises the repeal of the Stamp Act, but declares that it has the right to tax colonies
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Duties on tea, glass, lead, paper and paint to help pay for the administration of the colonies, named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. John Dickinson publishes Letter from a Philadelphian Farmer in protest. Colonial assemblies condemn taxation without representation.
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Angered by the presence of troops and Britain's colonial policy, a crowd began harassing a group of soldiers guarding the customs house; a soldier was knocked down by a snowball and discharged his musket, sparking a volley into the crowd which kills five civilians.
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In an effort to support the ailing East India Company, Parliament exempted its tea from import duties and allowed the Company to sell its tea directly to the colonies. Americans resented what they saw as an indirect tax subsidising a British company.
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Angered by the Tea Acts, American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians dump £9,000 of East India Company tea into the Boston harbour.
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Four measures which stripped Massachusetts of self-government and judicial independence following the Boston Tea Party. The colonies responded with a general boycott of British goods.
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Colonial delegates meet to organise opposition to the Intolerable Acts
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First engagements of the Revolutionary War between British troops and the Minutemen, who had been warned of the attack by Paul Revere.
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Issued $2 million bills of credit to fund the army.
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The first major battle of the War of Independence. Sir William Howe dislodged William Prescott's forces overlooking Boston at a cost of 1054 British casualties to the Americans' 367.
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Congress endorses a proposal asking for recognition of American rights, the ending of the Intolerable Acts in exchange for a cease fire. George III rejected the proposal and on 23 August 1775 declared the colonies to be in open rebellion.
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Thomas Paine's Common Sense published anonymously in Philadelphia
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Continental Congress issues the Declaration of Independence
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New Jersey, providing a boast to American morale.
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Lacking supplies, 5,700 British, German and loyalist forces under Major General John Burgoyne surrender to Major General Horatio Gates in a turning point in the Revolutionary War.
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Surrender of British forces under Cornwallis at Yorktown.
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formally ending the Revolutionary War