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french and indian war
The French and Indian War (1754–63) comprised the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War of 1756–63. It pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France. Both sides were supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France, -
sugar act
put taxes on suger that wasnt britans -
Quartering Act
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stamp act
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Townshend Act
A series of measures introduced into the English Parliament by Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend in 1767 -
Boston Massacre
British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under attack by a mob. -
Committees of correspondence
the Virginia House of Burgesses proposed that each colonial legislature appoint a standing committee for intercolonial correspondence. Within a year, nearly all had joined the network, and more committees were formed at the town and county levels. -
tea act
The Catalyst of the Boston Tea Party. The Tea Act, passed by Parliament , granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies. -
boston tea party
In Boston Harbor, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships and dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor. -
intolerable acts
They were meant to punish the American colonists for the Boston Tea Party and other protests. -
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second continental congess
The Second Congress managed the Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence -
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first continental congess
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met from September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania early in the American Revolution. -
lexington and concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War -
declaration of independence
he Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen ...