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http://www.history.com/this-day-in-historyThe 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
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the seven years war ended with the signing of the treaties of Hubertusburg and paris in 1763 -
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-historyIn 1763, at ethe end of the French and Indian War, the British issued a proclamation,mainly intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands. In the centuries since the proclamation, it has become one of the cornerstones of Native American law in the United States and Canada.
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in an effort to raise funds to pay of debt and defend the vast new American terrotories won from the french in seven years war the goverment passed the stamp act in 1765 -
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british captain thomas preston and eight of his regulars were tried for the alleged muder of five boston colonial -
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Townshend Act was an attempt by the British government to consolidate fiscal and political power over the American colonies by placing import taxes on many of the British products bought by Americans, including lead, paper, paint, glass and tea. -
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1773, British Parliament passes the Tea Act, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company from bankruptcy by greatly lowering the tea tax -
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a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships and dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor. -
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the major American opposition to British policy came in 1765 after Parliament passed the Stamp Act, a taxation measure to raise revenues for a standing British army in America. -
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Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, kicked off the American Revolutionary War -
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in 1776, members of Congress affix their signatures to an enlarged copy of the Declaration of Independence.
