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The French and the Indians fought the English in the Americas. They fought over land they both claimed. The war was between 1754 and 1763
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After the English won the war they set a line to keep colonists from moving past the mountains. They did this to keep the colonists safe from the Indians.
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An act passed by the British that taxed the colonists on Sugar
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This encouraged the colonies opposition to Britain's stiffening customs.
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This act required the colonists to take care of British soldiers in their own home.
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This Act regulated the money of the the colonists. These acts sought to protect British merchants from being paid in depreciated colonial currency
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This was the first internal tax levied directly to American colonists. This act put a tax on all paper documents.
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The colonists met to devise a protest against the new British taxation.
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A secret society formed to protect the rights of colonists.
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This was an Act that taxed glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. The colonists saw it as an abuse of power.
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The Colonial non-importation associations were organized by Sons of Liberty and Whig merchants to boycott English goods.
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A squad of British soldiers shot men in an alley who were throwing snowballs.
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The act’s main purpose was not to raise money from the colonies but to bail out the East India Company, a key role in the British economy.
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Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard.
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A meeting of fifty-six delegates from all the colonies except Georgia that drafted a declaration of rights and grievances.
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the act was meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor.
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord, kicked off the American Revolutionary War (1775-83).
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The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence.
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Announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent states, and no longer under British rule.