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The American Revenue Act of 1764, so called Sugar Act, was a law that attempted to curb the smuggling of sugar and molasses in the colonies by reducing the previous tax rate and enforcing the collection of duties
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The French and Indian War pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France
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The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies
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After Britain won the Seven Years' War and gained land in North America, it issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763
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an act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents
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On this day in 1765, Parliament passes the Quartering Act, outlining the locations and conditions in which British soldiers are to find room and board in the American colonies
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Townshend Acts. The Townshend Acts were a series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies in 1767
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The Boston Massacre, known to the British as the Incident on King Street, was a confrontation
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The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December
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The Intolerable Acts were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament
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The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War