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The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War. The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended in the year 1776.
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The Stamp Act Congress, also known as the Continental Congress of 1765, was a meeting held in New York, New York, consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America.It was the first colonial action against a British measure and was formed to protest the Stamp Act issued by British Parliament on March 1765.
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the Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed.
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On March 18, 1766, exactly 250 years ago, after four months of widespread protest in America, the British Parliament repealed the Stamp Act, a taxation measure enacted to raise revenues for a standing British army in America
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Declaratory Act, (1766), declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act.
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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 was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry.
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The townshend act was repealed in the march 1770, As a result of widespread protest and non-importation of British goods in colonial ports, Parliament began to partially repeal the Townshend duties. In March 1770, most of the indirect taxes from the Townshend Acts were repealed by Parliament under Frederick, Lord North.
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The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies. ... The passing of the Tea Act imposed no new taxes on the American colonies. The tax on tea had existed since the passing of the 1767.
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The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773.
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The Coercive Acts describe a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774, relating to Britain's colonies in North America. Passed in response to the Boston Tea Party, the Coercive Acts sought to punish Massachusetts as a warning to other colonies.
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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 , on September 5 , 1774.
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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. Established on May 10, 1775 and ended on March 1, 1781
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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, on July 4, 1776 , it wasn't signed until the year of August 2 1776.
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The American Revolutionary War, also known as the American War of Independence, was an 18th-century war between Great Britain and its Thirteen Colonies which declared independence in 1776 as the United States of America, and then formed a military alliance with France in 1778.
