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The French and Indian war resulted in the Treaty of Paris, it also helped Britain out by gaining them land.
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It was a plan to put the British colonies of North America under a more centralized government. This was the first step to unify the colonies against British taxation.
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It was the internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British Government. This put a strain with the colonies which led them to the point of rebellion against the British.
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The first gathering of elected representatives to oppose British taxation.
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The Boston tea party was a political protest which resulted in the intolerable acts.
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Meant to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party. They were key developments in the outbreak of the American Revolution.
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A response to the intolerable acts. This passes the continental congress
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It managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the Declaration of Independence.
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It helped prove they could stand up to one of the most powerful armies in the world
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An announcement that the 13 American colonies regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states. They were no longer a part of the British Empire.
