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French and Indian War was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French -
acts of Parliament intended to promote the self-sufficiency of the British Empire -
an act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty -
initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea -
was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which a group of nine British soldiers shot five people out of a crowd of three or four hundred -
dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor -
stated that Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and public houses -
a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party -
was adopted by Congress on July 5th, 1775 to be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared -
were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought -
a late-18th-century meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolutionary War -
is a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies -
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, is the pronouncement and founding document adopted by the Second Continental -
was an agreement among the 13 states of the United States of America, formerly the Thirteen Colonies -
took place from May 14 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -
was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government's