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The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years War. The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763.
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The Proclamation of 1763 was issued by the British at the end of the French and Indian War. 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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The Sugar Act was proposed by Prime Minister George Grenville. The Sugar Act increased the number of items that would be taxed when they were imported to the colonies.
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After months of protest, and an appeal by Benjamin Franklin before the British House of Commons, Parliament voted to repeal the Stamp Act in March 1766.
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The Townshend Acts were a series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies in 1767.
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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.
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The Tea Act 1773 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British.
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The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773.
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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.
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On September 5, 1774, delegates from each of the 13 colonies except for Georgia met in Philadelphia as the First Continental Congress to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts.