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French and Indian War
The French and Indian War lasted until 1763. The French and Indian War was a series of military engagements between Britain and France in North America between 1754 and 1763. The French and Indian War was the American phase of the Seven Years' War, which was underway in Europe.
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Proclamation of 1763
At the end of the French and Indian war the British issued a proclamation, mainly intended to stop the Indians by checking the territory of the settlers on their lands.
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Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765.The money collected by the Stamp Act was to be used to help pay the costs of defending and protecting the American frontier near the Appalachian Mountains.
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Townshend Acts
Originated by Charles Townshend and passed by the English Parliament shortly after the repeal of the Stamp Act. The Townshend Acts were named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of Exchequer, who proposed the programme.
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Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was the killing of Crispus Attucks,Samuel gray, James Caldwell, Samuel Maverick, and Samuel Maverick.There are three major things that led to the Boston Massacre: First was the growing mistrust among the British soldiers and Americans.The second reason is somewhat odd. The removal of two out of four regiments meant there were to inadequate amounts of soldiers to keep the peace. (The last reason won't fit on here.)
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Tea Act
The Tea Act was one of several measures imposed on the American colonists by the heavily indebted British government in the decade leading up to the American Revolutionary War (1775-83). The act’s main purpose was not to raise revenue from the colonies but to bail out the floundering East India Company, a key actor in the British economy. The British government granted the company a monopoly on the importation and sale of tea in the colonies. Parliament responded with a series of harsh measures. -
Boston Tea Party
This famed act of American colonial defiance served as a protest against taxation.While consignees in Charleston, New York, and Philadelphia rejected tea shipments, merchants in Boston refused to concede to Patriot pressure. On the night of December 16, 1773, 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. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts was the American Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
Lexington and Concord
Lexington and Concord were the first battles of the American Revolution. On April 19, 1775, a British armed force of about 700 men marched from Boston to destroy American military weapons at the town of Concord, Massachussetts.
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Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson and adopted by the Second Continental Congress, states the reasons the British colonies of North America sought independence in July of 1776.
http://www.sparknotes.com/history/american/declaration/summary.html
