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issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.

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In March 24, 1765 a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing. It also required colonists to provide food for any British soldiers in the area.

The British sent an additional 40,000 soldiers to the colonies in 1765 to protect the borders of the colonies and also to help to collect taxes from the colonists - it was a British show of force.

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also known as the American Revenue Act, was a revenue-raising act passed by the British Parliament of Great Britain in April 5 of 1764.

was a tax passed by the British to pay for the Seven Years War, called the French and Indian War in America

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 or First Congress of the American Colonies was a meeting held between October 7 and 25, 1765 in New York City, consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America; it was the first gathering of elected representatives from several of the American colonies

 In October 1765, 27 delegates from nine different colonies met in New York to determine a mass course of action

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was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act.

 the Parliament repealed the Stamp Act and simultaneously passed the Declaratory Act, which claimed that Britain had the right to tax the American colonies.

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 were a series of acts passed beginning in 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America.

 originated by Charles Townshend and passed by the English Parliament shortly after the repeal of the Stamp Act.

They were designed to collect revenue from the colonists in America by putting customs duties on imports of glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea.

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was the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770.

 It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts.

 All victims of the Massacre, Crispus Attucks, Samuel Gray, James Caldwell, Samuel Maverick and Patrick Carr, were buried at Granary Burying Ground in Boston.

The Old State House is depicted in the background. The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British

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The Catalyst of the Boston Tea Party. The 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.

Their resistance culminated in the Boston TeaParty on December 16, 1773, in which colonists boarded East India Company ships and dumped their loads of tea overboard.

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On the night of December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard.

British shut down Boston Harbor until all of the 340 chests of British East India Company tea were paid for. This was implemented under the 1774 Intolerable Acts and known as the Boston Port Act.

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March 24, 1774 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.

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a meeting of delegates from twelve (except Georgia) of the Thirteen Colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.

The Congress had two primary accomplishments. The first was a compact among the colonies to boycott British goods beginning on December 1, 1774. The West Indies were threatened with a boycott unless the islands agreed to non-importation of British goods.

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April 19, 1775 Battles of (April 1775) First engagements of the American Revolution. Minutemen at Lexington Green intercepted British troops marching from Boston to Concord, Massachusetts.

 The British killed several minutemen and advanced toConcord, where they destroyed some military supplies.

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