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The French and Indian war.
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The Seven Years' war lasted from 1756 to 1763, forming a chapter in the imperial struggle between Britain and France called the Second Hundred Years' War. -
_Proclamation of 1763
Click HereIn 1763, at the end of the French and Indian War, the British issued a proclamation, mainly intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the enchroachmen of settlers on their land. -
Stamp Act
Click HereThe 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. -
Townshend Acts
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The Townshend Acts were a series of measures introduced into Parliament by Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend in 1767. The Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper, and teas imported into the colonies and created a Board of Customs commissioners to enforce customs laws without the accused having recoarse of trial by jury. -
Boston Massacre
Click HereThe Boston Massacre was a street fight that occured on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks at a squad of British soldiers. -
Tea Act
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The Tea Act of 1773 was one of several measures imposed on the American colonists by the heavily indebted British government in the decade leading up to the Revolutionary War. The act's main purpose was not to raise revenue from the colonies but to bail out the floundering East India Company, a key factor in the British economy. -
Boston Tea Party
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The Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1773, took place when a group of Massachusettes patriots, seized 342 chests of tea on a midnight raid on three tea ships and threw them into the harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
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March to September 1774 Following the colonists defient display at the Boston Tea Party, the majority of England was surprised, bewildered, and angered by the colonists' actions. After much debate in the Parliament, King George III assumed an active role in deciding punishment for the rebellious and costly colonists by personally advising Lord North, the prime minister of Britain at the time. -
Lexington and Concord
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Britain's General Gage had a secret plan to go to Lexington to capture colonial leaders Sam Adams and John Hancock, then Concord where they would seize their gunpowder. But spies and friends of the Americans warned them of General Gage's plan. -
Declaration of Independence
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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. In mid-June 1776, a five-man commitee including Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin was tasked with drafting a formal statement of the colonies' intentions, the Declaration of Independence.
