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Also known as the "The Seven Years War", The French and english fought because they both claimed the Ohio River Valley.
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Docuement issued by the British at the end of the French and Indian War to appease Native Americans by checking the encroachment of European settlers on their lands.
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It was the first tax on the American colonies imposed by the British Parliament. Its purpose was to raise revenue through the colonial customs service.
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Document passed by the British Parliment on the American colonist. It requres people to pay a tax for every printed sheet of paper they used.
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Required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies.
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Series of laws that taxed goods imported to the American colonies.
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Fight between Amercan colonists and British soliders in Boston because the British had instituted a number of new taxes on the American colonists.
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A political protest where American colonists dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor.
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Act that permitted the East India Company to ship tea from its warehouse in Britain without paying the duty.
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Meeting where members could share concerns about the tensions with the British throughout the colonies.
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A series of laws passed by Parliment that were meant to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
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The second meeting where members were preparing for war because shots had been fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachuetts.
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"Shot heard around the world" refers to the opening shot of the Battle of Cocnord.
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Book by Thomas Paine that advised independence for the American colonies from Britain.
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First formal statement by the nation's people written by Thomas Jefferson.