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a war between new france and the colonies. lasted 7 years, england won and took control of the ohio river valley
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benjamin franklins plan to unite the colonys to collect taxes to raise troops for the militia to fight british for independance
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washiongton went to get rid of french in ohio river valley and had a huge loss and had to surrender
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law that says colonist couldnt settle past the ohio river valley
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colonist had to pay a tax on imported molassas
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The committees of correspondence were shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution. They coordinated responses to Britain and shared their plans; by 1773 they had emerged as shadow governments, superseding the colonial legislature and royal officials.
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a law that forced the colonists to give british soldiers a house, food and clothing
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a society formed to protect the rights of the colonist and fight unfair taxation from the british
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The Daughters of Liberty was a group of 92 women who looked to rebel against British taxes by making home goods instead of buying them from the British. Using their feminine skills of the time, they made homespun cloth] and other goods.
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was the first gathering of elected representatives from several of the American colonies to devise a unified protest against new British taxation
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taxed almost all printed goods in the colonies
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taxed glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies
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a riot provoked 5 guards and they fired upon te crowd and killed 2 and wounded 3
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was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. Its principal overt objective was to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive.
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The Boston Tea Party (initially referred to by John Adams as "the Destruction of the Tea in Boston) was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773.
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They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. In Great Britain, these laws were referred to as the Coercive Acts.
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The Congress was attended by 56 delegates appointed by the legislatures of the thirteen colonies which were hoping for British assistance with Native American problems on its frontier
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setting procedures of governance in the Province of Quebec.
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he Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War
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While the result was a victory for the British, the massive losses they encumbered discouraged them from any further sorties against the siege lines; 226 men were killed with over 800 wounded, including a large number of officers. The battle at the time was considered to be a colonial defeat, however the losses suffered by the British troops gave encouragement to the colonies
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gave england power to tax the colonies
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he Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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The Declaration of Independence is the usual name of a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire
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The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on 3 September 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War.
