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The French and Indian War was one of the biggest wars around Europe. Everyone was mad at each other so they moved other places, America.
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Stamp Act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents.
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The Proclamation of 1763 was the opening of opportunities for colonists. They got to make more colonies.
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The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed, beginning in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America.
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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 was the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on her American colonies.
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The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773.
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The Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party.
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[The Battles of Lexington and Concord](www.ushistory.org/us/11c.asp) were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
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The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Continental Congress meeting at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies.