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  The United Kingdom of Great Britain came into existence in 1707.
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  By 1750 the British has contained more than one million people.
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  In 1759 British forces under General Wolfe defeated the French under General Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham.
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  By 1763, Great Britain had become the world's greatest colonial power.
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  In 1764, a law was passed which said the colonies could not print or use their own money.
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  In 1765 the Stamp Act [text annotation indicator] was passed.
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  In October 1765 nine colonies sent people to a meeting in New York City to talk about the Stamp Act.
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  In 1767 the British passed the Townsend Act.
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  Fighting finally erupted between colonists and the British army in April 1775 in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts.
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  On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress approved the Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson.