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French and Indian War
It was a seven year war between the colonies of British America and New France -
Albany Plan
A plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies -
Proclamation of 1763
It was intended to stop the Native Americans by checking the encroachment of settlers on their land. -
Sugar Act
The sugar act was a revenue-raising act which was passed by the parliament of Great Britain -
Quartering Act
It was an act that was passed that allowed British soldiers to make your home theirs. Colonists were obligated to feed, and let soldiers stay in their homes -
Stamp Act
An act that was passed to put a tax on newspapers and legal and commercial documents -
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Townshend Act
New taxes were placed on paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea -
Boston Massacre
A riot between revolting colonist and British soldiers which resulted in five dead colonist. -
Boston Tea Party
It was political protest by American colonists because they were angry for Britain imposing "taxation without representation" They dumped 342 chests of British Tea into the harbor -
Intolerable Acts
Punitive laws that were passed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Boston Tea Party protest -
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1st Continental Congress
It was a meeting of delegates for twelve of the thirteen colonies who me at Carpenters Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -
Lexington and Concord
They were the first battles that were fought in the American Revolutionary War
