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A war fought in the middle of the eighteenth century between the Britain and France over land and resources.
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A war fought in the middle of the eighteenth century between the Britain and France over land and resources.
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Prohibited white setters claiming territory designated as Indian country. The intention was to use it as a means to make peace with Indian tribes after the French and Indian War.
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A law passed by the British Parliament in 1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market.
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An act of the British Parliament for raising revenue in the American Colonies by requiring the use of stamps and stamped paper for official documents, commercial writings, and various articles: it was to go into effect on November 1, 1765, but met with intense opposition and was repealed in March, 1766
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The British parliamentary provision (actually an amendment to the annual Mutiny Act) requiring colonial authorities to provide food, drink, quarters, fuel, and transportation to British forces stationed in their towns or villages.
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A meeting held between October 7 and 25, 1765 in New York City. The men who attended the meeting consisted of representatives from 9 of the British Colonies in North America. The objective of the representatives was to devise a unified protest against new British taxation - specifically the Stamp Act of 1765.
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"American Colonies Act" accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act. Increases the power Britain had.
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Imposed duties (taxes) on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies.
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This was not really a massacre; colonists were protesting and began throwing rocks and snowballs at the soliders, they did not stop so they were shot.
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The Gaspee was chasing a merchant ship believed to be smuggling goods. The Gaspee ran aground in Narragansett Bay, near Providence. The next night, a group of men boarded the Gaspee. They were led by John Brown, a wealthy merchant from Providence. They wounded the lieutenant who was commanding the ship, and set the ship on fire.
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Granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies. (All about the money)
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Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. This resulted in the passage of the punitive Coercive Acts in 1774 and pushed the two sides closer to war.
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In retaliation of the Boston Tea Party, the British government enacted a series of punitive acts (the Coercive Acts), together with a separate act dealing with French Canada (the Quebec Act). The colonists were outraged by these various laws.
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Attempt to settle the concerns and frustrations raised with the Intolerable Acts through debate and discussion. (famous Patriots like John Adams, Samuel Adams, George Washington, and Patrick Henry, from twelve colonies met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to formulate a plan of action.)
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38-year-old lawyer and politician gave an impassioned plea urging the Old Dominion to form militias to defend itself against the British. Henry’s brief address which closed with the incendiary line “Give me liberty or give me death! swayed the Convention in his favor, and his words became a rallying cry during the march to war that was soon to begin.
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Battles of Lexington and Concord, initial skirmishes between British regulars and American provincials, marking the beginning of the American Revolution. (Shot heard around the world)
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The first great battle of the Revolutionary War; it was fought near Boston in June 1775. The British drove the Americans from their fort at Breed's Hill to Bunker Hill, but only after the Americans had run out of gunpowder.
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A document split up into 5 sections that gave the unanimous 13 colonies their independence from Britain.
