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history.com/topics/french-and-indian-war
The Seven Years’ War (called the French and Indian War in the colonies) lasted from 1756 to 1763, forming a chapter in the imperial struggle between Britain and France called the Second Hundred Years’ War. -
history.com/topics/american-revolution/stamp-act
The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British government. -
ushistory.org/declaration/related/proc63.htm
The proclamation, in effect, closed off the frontier to colonial expansion. -
history.com/topics/american-revolution/townshend-acts
Townshend hoped the acts would defray imperial expenses in the colonies, but many Americans viewed the taxation as an abuse of power, resulting in the passage of agreements to limit imports from Britain. -
ushistory.org/declaration/related/massacre.htm
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. -
ushistory.org/declaration/related/teaact.htm
It was designed to prop up the East India Company which was floundering financially and burdened with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea. -
history.com/topics/american-revolution/boston-tea-party
They were seeking to boost the troubled East India Company, British Parliament adjusted import duties with the passage of the Tea Act in 1773. -
ushistory.org/declaration/related/intolerable.htm
British merchants had lost huge sums of money on looted, spoiled, and destroyed goods shipped to the colonies. -
ushistory.org/us/11c.asp
Their destinations were LEXINGTON, where they would capture Colonial leaders Sam Adams and John Hancock, then CONCORD, where they would seize gunpowder. -
ushistory.org/declaration/
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