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French and Indian War Begins
The french and Indian War is a battle that occured from 1754-1763 between the French and the Native Americans. The Indians had tried to push the French out, which lead to this war. -
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French and Indian War
The french and Indian War is a battle that occured from 1754-1763 between the French and the Native Americans. The Indians had tried to push the French out, which lead to this war. -
French and Indian War Ends
The french and Indian War is a battle that occured from 1754-1763 between the French and the Native Americans. The Indians had tried to push the French out, which lead to this war. -
Proclamation of 1763
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III after Great Britain's gain of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which prohibited all settlement past a border along the Appalatian Mountains. -
Stamp Act
The act of the British Parliament in 1756 that demanded taxes from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal/commercial documents. Colonial opposition led to the act's repeal in 1766 and helped encourage the revolutionary movement against the British Government. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts were a bunch of documents passed, starting in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain associated with the British colonies in North America. -
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Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts were a bunch of documents passed, starting in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain associated with the British colonies in North America. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on her American colonies. The policy ignited a “powder keg” of opposition and resentment among American colonists and was the catalyst of the Boston Tea Party. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party (originally called by John Adams as "the Destruction of the Tea in Boston") was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
Lexington and Concord
General Gage of the British Army sent out soldier in the early hours of the morning from boston to fight in Lexington and Concord. They captured Sam Adams and John Hancock. Americans won in the end becuase they had spies to find out the plans. -
Declaration of Independence
The declaration of independance was the document the americans made to show that they had formed thier own government and would no longer take orders from Great Britain.
