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The French and Indian War was a long and hard battle between you guessed it the French and the Indians. The battle was over territory. The French wanted to extend their North American colonies into the land west of the Appalachian Mountains, known then as the Ohio Territory.
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The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.
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The Stamp Act was an act of the British Parliament that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents.
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The Townshend Acts were a series of many acts that began in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program.
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The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry.
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The Tea Act was the last straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on her American colonies.
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The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston.
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The Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party.
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
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The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Continental Congress meeting at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
