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  a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin
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  the colonies of British America against those of New France. Both sides were supported by military units from their parent countries, as well as by American Indian allies.
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  issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War.
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  imposed a tax of six pence per gallon of molasses, had never been effectively collected due to colonial evasion.
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  a direct tax on the Thirteen Colonies and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper
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  a law where british soldiers were allowed to stay in your house for no cost
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  series of British Acts of Parliament passed relating to the British in North America
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  british Army soldiers shot and killed five people while under attack by a mob.
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  a group of colonists dressed up as natives and went on to a ship and through barrels of tea in the harbor
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  punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party
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  meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies
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  first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.