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http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/frin.htm1689 was the first year the war started. Between the Indians and the English.
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http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/frin.htmThe war is over!!!!!
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http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/teaparty.htmAt the war's conclusion in 1763, King George III and his government looked to taxing the American colonies as a way of recouping their war costs
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamp_Act_of_1765An act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents.
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Townshend Acts, 1767, originated by Charles Townshend and passed by the English Parliament shortly after the repeal of the Stamp Act. -
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770
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The government spent immense sums of money on troops and equipment in an attempt to subjugate Massachusetts. British merchants had lost huge sums of money on looted, spoiled, and destroyed goods shipped to the colonies.
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The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies.
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http://www.history.com/topics/battles-of-lexington-and-concordOn the 15 of April 1775, when General Thomas Gage, British Military Governor of Massachusetts, was ordered to destroy the rebel's military stores at Concord.
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http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_timeline.htmlOn the 15 of April 1775, when General Thomas Gage, British Military Governor of Massachusetts, was ordered to destroy the rebel's military stores at Concord.