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measure designed to afford greater rights to the French inhabitants of Canada, which had come under British rule through the Treaty of Paris in 1763
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Fifty-six delegates from all colonies except Georgia drafted a declaration of rights and grievances and elected Virginian Peyton Randolph as the first president of Congress.
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a north american conflict between great britian and france
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The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government.
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The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was done by george the third following the end of the French and Indian Wars with the Peace of Paris which concluded the Seven Years' War in Europe and the French Indian War in America. The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was designed to calm the Native Indians
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The Sugar Act of 1764 was a British Law, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on April 5, 1764, that was designed to raise revenue
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first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British government. The act, which imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies,
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Quartering Act, outlining the locations and conditions in which British soldiers are to find room and board in the American colonies.
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a taxation measure enacted to raise revenues for a standing British army in America.
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for the better securing the dependency of his Majesty's dominions in America upon the crown and parliament of Great Britain.
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imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. Townshend hoped the acts would defray imperial expenses in the colonies,
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The Boston Massacre was a street fight between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers
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a destruction of the britsh tea
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The government spent immense sums of money on troops and equipment in an attempt to subjugate Massachusetts.
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British troops are sent to confiscate colonial weapons, they run into an untrained and angry militia. This ragtag army defeats 700 British soldiers and the surprise victory bolsters their confidence for the war ahead.
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it was negotiated between the United States and Great Britain, ended the revolutionary war and recognized American independence.