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Road to revolution
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French and indian war
[French and indian war](<a href='http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-french-and-indian-war-ends)' >A war between the french and indians that lasted nine years</a> -
Proclomation of 1763
Proclamation of 1763The Royal Proclamation was initially issued by King George III in 1763 to officially claim British territory in North America after Britain won the Seven Years War. In the Royal Proclamation, ownership over North America is issued to King George. -
Stamp act
[Stamp act](<a href='http://www.history.org/history/teaching/tchcrsta.cfm)' >An act that the british pet stamps on things that they sold to america</a> -
Townshend Acts
[On that fateful day in 1770, the British government moves to mollify outraged colonists by repealing most of the clauses of the hated Townshend Act. Initially passed on June 29, 1767, the Townshend Act constituted an attempt by the British government to consolidate fiscal and political power over the American colonies by placing import taxes on many of the British products bought by Americans, including lead, paper,](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townshend_Acts) paint, glass and tea. -
boston massacure
<a href='http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-boston-massacre' ></a>On the cold, snowy night of March 5, 1770, a mob of American colonists gathers at the Customs House in Boston and begins taunting the British soldiers guarding the building. The protesters, who called themselves Patriots, were protesting the occupation of their city by British troops, who were sent to Boston in 1768 to enforce unpopular taxation measures passed by a British parliament that lacked American representatio -
Boston Tea Party
<a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party' ></a>The Boston Tea Party (initially referred to by John Adams as "the Destruction of the Tea in Boston"[2]) was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. The demonstrators, some disguised as American Indians, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company, in defiance of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773. They boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into Boston Harbor, ruining the tea. -
Tea act
<a href='http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/teaact.htm' ></a>The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes. It was designed to prop up the East India Company which was floundering financially and burdened with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea. This tea was to be shipped directly to the colonies, and sold at -
Intolerable Acts
<a href='http://www.hobart.k12.in.us/gemedia/amrev/revwar/intolera.htm' ></a> The Intolerable Acts were passed in 1774 to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party. There were three major acts involved that angered the colonists.
The first was the Boston Port Bill and it closed the Boston Harbor until the people of Boston paid for the tea that they threw into the harbor. It went into effect on June 1, 1774. -
• Lexington and Concord
<a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Lexington_and_Concord' ></a> The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.[9][10] They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston. The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen of -
Declaration of Independence
<a href='https://history.state.gov/milestones/1776-1783/declaration' ></a> By issuing the Declaration of Independence, adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain. The Declaration summarized the colonists’ motivations for seeking their independence. By declaring themselves an independent nation, the American colonists were able to conclude an official alliance with the government of France and obtain French as
