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The French and Indian war was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years.
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The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued by King George on October 7th, 1763.
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Also known as the American Revenue Act of 1764, so called "Sugar Act" was a law that attempted to curb the smuggling of sugar and molasses in the colonies by reducing the previous tax rate and enforcing the collection of duties
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An act regulating stamp duty
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A series of British acts of Parliament passed during 1767 and 1768 relating to the British colonies in America
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The Boston Massacre occured on March 5th, 1770 when British soldiers in Boston opened fire on a group of American colonists killing five men
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The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10th, 1773, granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies
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The Boston Tea party was a political protest that occurred on December 16th, 1773.
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The series of acts British Parliament passed in 1774 in reaction to the Boston Tea Party came to be known in the American colonies as the Intolerable Acts.
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On September 5th, 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