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1770- 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.

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1776- the usual name of a statement by the Continental Congress on July 4,1776, which announced that the thirteen American Colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.

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1775-1783-The Battle of Bunker Hill was a military conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in North America during the American Revolutionary War. The Battle of Bunker Hill followed the Battle of Chelsea Creek and was an engagement during the 11 month Siege of Boston and ended in victory for the British.

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1775-1783- a military conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its 13 colonies in North America during the American Revolutionary War. The Battle of Concord ended in victory for the American colonists.

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1775- The Battle of Lexington was a military conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in North America during the American Revolutionary War. The Battle at Lexington Green in 1775 started the American Revolution and the "shot heard round the world."

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1774- The Continental Congress was where elected representatives of colonists assembled in revolt against British rule and to debate the course of action in response to grievances of colonies against Great Britain.

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1773- A British law, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on May 10, 1773, that was designed to bail out the British East India company and expand the company’s monopoly on the tea trade to all British colonies, selling excess tea at a reduced price.

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beginning in 1767 – a series of acts passed by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America.  They were a series of laws which set new import taxes on British goods including paint, paper, lead, glass, and tea and used revenues to maintain British troops in America and to pay the salaries of some Royal officials who were appointed to work in the American colonies.

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1765 – the name given to a minimum of two acts of British Parliament in the 18th century.  Parliament enacted them to order local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing.

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1765 – was a law that required all colonial residents to pay a stamp tax on virtually every printed paper including legal documents, bills of sale, contracts, wills, advertising, pamphlets, almanacs, and even playing cards and dice.

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1754-1763 – was the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years’ War.  The war was fought between colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France, as well as Native American allies.

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April 5, 1764 – Also known as the American Revenue Act or the American Duties Act.  The Sugar Act was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain.  The Act set a tax on sugar and molasses imported into the colonies which impacted the manufacture of rum in New England.