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French and Idian war began
The French and Indian War was the last and most important of a series of colonial conflicts between the British and the American colonists. and the French and Native American were both allies. Fighting began in the spring of 1754, but Britain and France did not officially declare war against each other until May 1756 and the outbreak of the Seven Years War in Europe. -
French and Idian war ending
In 1763, all of France's allies either made a seperate peace with Prussia or have been defeated. -
Proclamaton of 1763
It was issued by King George IIl following Great Britain's acquistion of French terroitory in North American territory after the French and Idian War ended, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along th eAppalachian Mountains. -
Stamp Act
An act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal commmeri documents. -
Townshend
Townshend Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
It was a street fight between a "Patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. -
Tea Act
It was the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on American colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
A man known as Samuel Adams and the Sons of Leberty boarded three ships in the Boson harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. -
Intolerable Acts
It is were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament after the boston tea party. -
Lexington and Concord
These battles were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Declaration of independence
The congress formally adopted the Declarationof Independence-written largely by Jefferson- in Philadeophia on July 4, a date now celebrated as teh birth of American independence.
