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Treaty of Paris(French and Indian War)
The Treaty of Paris ends the French and Indian War -
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Events leading to the American Revolution
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Sugar Act
a British Law, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on April 5, 1764, -
Quartering Act
a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies -
Stamp Act
The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and made them to pay tax on every piece of printed paper they used -
Townshend Act
a series of acts passed, beginning in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain -
Boston Massacre
Incident on King Street by the British, -
Tea Act
launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston -
Committees of Correspondence
a body established by various towns or assemblies of the American colonies -
Boston Tea Party
Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard -
Coercive Acts / Intolerable Acts
passed in 1774 to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party. -
1st Continental Congress
a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies -
Battle of Lexington and Concord – “shot heard ‘round the world”
the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War -
2nd Continental Congress
a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies -
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence -
The Proclamation Line of 1763
is signed forbidding settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains
