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French and Indian War
www.history.com Also known as the Seven Years’ War, this New World conflict was another chapter in the struggle between Britain and France. When France’s expansion into the Ohio River valley brought conflict with claims of the British colonies, battles led to the British declaration of war in 1756. -
Proclamation of 1763
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In 1763, at the end of the French and Indian War, the British issued a proclamation, intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands. since the proclamation, it has become one of the cornerstones of Native American law. -
Stamp Act
www.history.orgThe stamp act was an act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. -
Townshend acts
www.history.comThe Townshend Acts were acts passed in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend. -
Boston Massacure
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers. -
Tea Act
www.bostonteapartyship.comThe Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies. -
boston Tea Party
www.history.com The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. -
Intolerable Acts
www.ushistory.orgThe Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots' term for a series of laws passed by the British Parliament after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
Lexington and Concord
www.history.comThe Battles of Lexington and Concord, kicked off the American Revolutionary War. Tensions had been building between residents of the 13 colonies and British authorities, April 18, 1775, hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to Concord to seize an arms cache. Paul Revere and others sounded the alarm, and colonial militiamen began mobilizing to intercept the redcoat column. -
Declaration of Independence
history.state.govThe Declaration of Independence is the statement by the Continental Congress which announced that the thirteen American colonies, regarded themselves as thirteen new independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.
