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The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War between Great Britain and France. In this treaty France gave up its territory in North America.
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The Proclamation Act was passed so no settlement could cross the Appalachian Mountains in Great Britain's territory.
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Great Britain put taxes on sugar and molasses that was imported to British colonies, and colonists tried to get the price of taxes reduced. This act went through Parliament and was meant to stop trade between New England and the colonies with France, Amsterdam, Spain, and the West Indies
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The Stamp Act passed through Parliament and required that colonies pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. This included legal documents, newspapers, and even playing cards.
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The Quartering Act was imposed by Great Britain and it stated that colonies had to provide barracks for British soldiers and house them.
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The Stamp Act Congress was the first Congress of North American colonies.
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The Declaration of Rights and Grievance was issued by the Stamp Act Congress, and it stated that colonists had the same rights as the people living in Britain, and that they had a right to trial by jury.
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The Declaratory Acts allowed Britain to have complete legislative power over the colonies.
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The Townshend Act was a series of acts passed by Parliament in Great Britain that taxed paint, tea, lead, glass, and paper imported into the colonies.
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Royal troops came to colonies after much tension between the colonists and Great Britain to enforce taxation, and killed five colonists.
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The Committee of Correspondence was a political union among the thirteen colonies, who opposed British policy.
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The Tea Act was the Americans opposition to the tax on tea.
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The Boston Tea Party was the way the colonies protested the tax on tea. In this protest they boarded three ships and threw chests of tea into the harbor.
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The Intolerable Acts were a series of acts passed by Parliament, following the Boston Tea Party, that were meant to punish the people who went against Great Britain and threw tea overboard.
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Delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies met and drafted a declaration of rights.
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Common Sense was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine and it challenged the authority Great Britain and the monarchy had.
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The Battle of Lexington and Concord is what started the American Revolution. British soldiers went to arrest the rebels and seize their weapons, and that is what started the battle.
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The battle of Bunker Hill was a battle that the Americans won against the British.
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This petition was a letter to King George III from the Second Continental Congress stating their independence and trying to avoid war with the British.
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The Stamp Act was repealed and Parliament passed the Declaratory Acts.
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The Declaration of Independence was written in Philadelphia at the Second Continental Congress. The signing of the Declaration marked the beginning of America's independence.