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seven years' war
The Seven Years' War essentially comprised two struggles. Spain, with French support, attacked Britain's ally Portugal -
proclamation of 1763
In 1763, at ethe end of the French and Indian War, the British issued a proclamation.In the centuries since the proclamation, it has become one of the cornerstones of Native American law in the United States and Canada. -
stamp act
British authorities. Attempts by the British government to raise revenue by taxing the colonies notably the Stamp Act of 1765, The act, which imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies, came at a time when the British Empire was deep in debt from the Seven Years' War -
what is the American revolution
The American Revolution is also known as the American Revolutionary War and the U.S. War of Independence . The conflict arose from growing tensions between residents of Great Britain's 13 North American colonies and the colonial government -
Boston Tea party
The British East India Company suffered from the American boycott of British tea. In an effort to save the company, Parliament passed the Tea Act in 1773 -
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minute men
Although the terms militia and minutemen are sometimes used interchangeably today, in the 18th century there was a decided difference between the two. Militia were men in arms formed to protect their towns from foreign invasion and ravages of war. Minutemen were a small hand-picked elite force which were required to be highly mobile and able to assemble quickly. Minutemen were selected from militia muster rolls by their commanding officers. Typically 25 years of age or younger, they were chosen -
what lead up to it
For more than a decade before the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775, tensions had been building between colonists and the British authorities. Attempts by the British government to raise revenue by taxing the colonies (notably the Stamp Act of 1765, the Townshend Tariffs of 1767 and the Tea Act of 1773) met with heated protest among many colonists, who resented their lack of representation in Parliament and demanded the same rights as other British subjects. -
intolerable acts
an outraged Parliament passed a series of measures known as the Intolerable acts designed to put the top authority in Massachusetts in place they were mad cause the boston tea party -
declaration of indpendence
When armed conflict between bands of American colonists and British soldiers began in April 1775, the Americans were ostensibly fighting only for their rights as subjects of the British crown. By the following summer, with the Revolutionary War in full swing, the movement for independence from Britain had grown -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre occurred on March 5, 1770. The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars 5 colonists by redcoats
