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The war took place in 1754-1763. The war began due to conflict between England and France over control of the Ohio River Valley. Both sides wanted expand h=their settlements into the area.
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The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued by King George III on October 7, 1763 following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the 7 year war. It forbade all settlement west of the line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains which was an Indian reserve.
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British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade of sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies and at providing increased revenues to fund enlarged British Empire responsibilities.
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The controversial act forced colonists to buy a British stamp for every official document they obtained. Parliament repealed the Stamp Act on March 22, 1765
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The Townshend Acts were a series of measures passed by the British parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. But American colonists saw the Acts as an abuse of power.
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The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot that occurred on March 5, 1770 on King Street in Boston. British Soldiers opened fire on a group of colonists harassing and taunting the British Army. Five men died when the British Soldiers fired their guns.
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The Tea Act was an act of parliament to reduce the amount of tea held by warehouses. The Tea Act was British Law that was designed to reduce and expand the company's monopoly on the tea trade to all British Colonies, selling excess tea at a reduced price.
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The Boston Tea party was a protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773, which allowed the British East India Company to sell tea from China in American Colonies without paying taxes.
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The Intolerable Acts were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British Government.
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The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States. Delegates from each of the colonies (except Georgia) met in Philadelphia as the First Continental Congress to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts.
