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The king issued the Proclamation of 1763 prohibiting settlements beyond the Appalachian mountains, also ordering that colonists who had already settled on those lands to return east.

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On June 29, 1767, the Townshend Act constituted an attempt by the British government to consolidate fiscal and political power over the American colonies by placing import taxes on many of the British products bought by Americans.

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On March 5, 1770, British troops fired on a crowd of civilian hecklers and killed 5 people.

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On December 16, 1773, in Boston Massachusetts, furious American colonists dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor because they were angry at Britain for imposing ¨Taxation without Representation.¨

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In 1774, the British Parliament passed a series of four laws to punish Massachusetts bay for the Boston Tea Party.

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On June 22, 1774, the Quebec Act  received royal assent. It revoked the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which had aimed to assimilate the French-Canadian population under English rule.

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On September 5th, 1774,  delegates from each of the 13 colonies except for Georgia met in Philadelphia as the First Continental Congress to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts.

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On April 19, 1775, the battle of Lexington and Concord kicked off the American Revolutionary War.

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In May 1775, the Second Continental Congress would represent America's first real attempt at representative self-governance, with it being the governing body of the American colonies.

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On June 17, 1775, the British defeated the Americans at Battle of Bunker Hill.

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The Olive Branch Petition (that was adopted by congress on July 5th, 1775) was a final attempt by the colonists to avoid going to war with Britain during the American Revolution.

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In 1775-1776 Thomas Paine wrote a pamphlet advocating independence from Great Britain to the people in the Thirteen colonies.

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In 1776, the declaratory act asserted Britain´s right to tax its colonies.

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On July 4, 1776, the 13 colonies separated from Great Britain. They started a new government for independence from the king and more freedom for themselves.