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In response to the French attacks on the frontier, Benjamin Franklin proposed a plan for uniting the colonies- The Albany Plan of Union. The colonies rejected the plan, however, because it gave too much power to the assembly of elected representatives from the thirteen colonies.
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The war was a struggle between the French and British over lands in western Pennsylvania and Ohio. By 1756, several other European countries became involved. Great Britian won the war in 1763 and gained complete controle of the eastern thrid of the continent.
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George had different ideas on how the colonies should be goverened.
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The Stamp Act imposed the first direct tax on the colonists. It required them to pay a tax on legal documents, pamphlets, newspapers, even dice and playing cards.Parliment also passed laws regulating colonial trade in ways that benifitted the King instead of the colonists.
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Nine colonies sent delegates to a meeting in New York called the Stamp Act Congress. This was the first meeting organized by the colonies to protest King George's actions. Delegates to the Congress sent a petition to the King, arguing that only colonial legislatures could impose direct taxes such as the Stamp Act.
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A group of colonists, dressed as Mohawk Indians, dumped 342 chest of tea into Boston Harbor.
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Urged resistance to the British rule.
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Delegates for all colonies, except for Georgia, met in Philidelphia for the First Continental Congress.
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In retaliation to the Tea Party, the Coercive Acts were passed, withdrawing the colonists right to govern themselves.
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Red Coats clashed with the minutemen, marking the first battle of the Revolutionary War.
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Met to create their democracy.
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Creation of the early draft of the Declaration of Independance.
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Creation of the final draft of The Declaration of the United States of America, inspiring hearts of colonists everywhere.
