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The French and Indian started on July 17th 1754. It was a 7 year long war between Britain and France, they were fighting for the control of much of North America.
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The Sugar Act was a revenue-raising act passed by the British Parliament in April, 1764. By reducing the earlier Molasses Tax's rate and expanding enforcement, the British hoped that the tax could be effectively collected.
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The Stamp Act 1765 required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp.
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The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed – beginning in 1767 – by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program.
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In Boston Harbor, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships and dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor.
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The Tea Act: The Catalyst of the Boston Tea Party. 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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The Coercive Acts are names used to describe a series of laws relating to Britain's colonies in North America and passed by the British Parliament in 1774.
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The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776
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The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
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Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.
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Quartering Act is a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing.
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The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House (Independence Hall) in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776.
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King George III issued the Proclamation of 1776 because he wanted a border between the the colonial and American Indian lands.