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Ended 7 Year War, France ceded all American Territory
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Fornade all the colonist of the settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.
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First attempt of financing for cost of the war, taxes on sugar.
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Another attempt of defraying the cost from the war, tax on all “stamped” paper
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Colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing
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Parliament passes the last of four acts, together known as the Townshend Acts. Paper, glass, and tea are among the items that are taxed and must be imported from Britain.
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Angered by the presence of troops and Britain's colonial policy, a crowd began harassing a group of soldiers guarding the customs house; a soldier was knocked down by a snowball and discharged his musket, sparking a volley into the crowd which kills five civilians.
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To support the East India Company, Parliament exempted its tea and allowed the Company to sell its tea directly to the colonies. Americans resented what they saw as an indirect tax subsidising a British company.
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Angered by the Tea Acts, American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians dump £9,000 of East India Company tea into the Boston harbour.
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Colonists had a general boycott of british goods
April 19 1775- Battles of Lexington and Concord-First engagements of the Revolutionary War between British troops and the Minutemen, who had been warned of the attack by Paul Revere. -
First engagements of the Revolutionary War between British troops and the Minutemen, who had been warned of the attack by Paul Revere.
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Continental Congress appointed George Washington commander-in-chief of Continental Army
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First major battle in the war for independence
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The statement adopted by the Continental Congress meeting at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Day where America gained their Independence
