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The French and Indian War pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France
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After Britain won the Seven Years' War and gained land in North America, it issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which prohibited American colonists from settling west of Appalachia.
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Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses.
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an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper
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The Townshend Acts were a series of British acts of Parliament passed during 1767 and 1768 relating to the British colonies in America.
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The event was heavily publicized by leading Patriots such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams.
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were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party.
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an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain.
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The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston
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The Continental Congress served as the government of the 13 American colonies and later the United States.
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a name given to two or more Acts of British Parliament requiring local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with housing and food.
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The shot heard round the world" is a phrase that refers to the opening shot of the Battle of Concord
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The Second Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America which united in the American Revolutionary War
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Paine marshaled moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government
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The United States Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania .