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(1754-1763)
A war between the French and English over land claims in regions surrounding Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania in North America. The resulting developments were that France lost a lot of land and Britain was in debt.

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(March 22, 1765)
The Stamp Act was a taxation bill passed in which colonists would have to put/have stamps put on goods such as: paper, playing cards, etc.
Though the tax only really affected the wealthy, the fact that Britain imposed a tax on them without their consent/representation made the colonists upset.

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(March 24, 1765)
The colonies were compelled to house British soldiers in barracks they provided under the Quartering Act of 1765. The areas were required to shelter the soldiers at local inns, livery stables, ale houses, victualing houses, and the homes of wine vendors if the barracks were too small to accommodate all of the soldiers.

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(March 5, 1770)
An outbreak in the street broke out between a group of colonists and British soldiers (redcoats.) What started as a verbal dispute grew into a physical dispute. This dispute ended with 5 civilians dying.

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(May 10, 1773)
A British tea company (British East India Company) monopolized on the tea sales/importation in the colonies. The tea was imported directly to the colonies, as well as, taxed.
The colonists hated the act because, they felt it gave British merchants an unfair advantage over American ones.

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(December 16, 1773)
A group of 60 American colonists protested by throwing 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to draw attention to the East India Company's perceived monopoly as well as a tea tax that they considered as an example of taxation without representation.

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(March 31 - June 22, 1774)
Generally, the Intolerable (Coercive) Acts were a group of acts enacted by the British monarchy and Parliament that were meant to fortify their authority and power over the colonists. This began with the Boston Port Act (March 31, 1774) in which the British navy blockaded the Boston ports of all commerce and ordered they pay large fines to compensate for all the tea thrown in the harbor.
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*Administration of Justice Act (May 20): authorized British officers suspected of crimes to be tried in England, where they would face less harsh punishment.
*Massachusetts Government Act (May 20): reformed the Massachusetts government in order to give the royally appointed more power.
*Quartering Act of 1774 (June 2): placed the power of royal governors to sort housing for Brit. soldiers rather than the colonial government.
*Quebec Act (June 22): established a permanent administration in Canada to replace the interim government established by the Proclamation of 1763

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(September 5 - Oct 26, 1774)
The First Continental Congress was established to discuss the oppressive acts of Britain and how they would attempt to resolve them. Initially, the colonies fought over whether they would resolve things peacefully (makeup with Britain) or separate fully. All colonies were represented in the Congress, except for Georgia, which was in the midst of a war with local indigenous tribes and relied upon British assistance.

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(April 19, 1775)
The battle of Lexington + Concord was where this "shot heard around the world" began. The previous phrase means that it was the spark that started the American Revolution, or the biggest one, as more physical altercations and battles took place after this event. What started as an initial raid on the colonists grew into a physical dispute which ended in the defeat of the British soldiers in Concord which boosted morale and support for the American Revolution.

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(June 17, 1775)
The Battle of Bunker Hill, though a win for the British, functioned as a great incentive to the American colonists to support the war effort and join the military. Though the losers in the conflict, the American soldiers showed that they could stand their ground which gave the colonies a little hope in the war.