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Treaty after the Austrian War of Succession (1747)
Aix la Chapelle
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Where delegates were sent to Virginia to discuss Indan Policy (July 1747)
The Albany Congress
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Fort taken over by the French (1754)
Necessity
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The fort was renamed (1754)
Dusquesne
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Leader of the 2000 British reinforcements (July 1755)
General Braddock
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War (1756-1763)
The Seven Years War
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Peace Settlement
Peace of Paris
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Indian rebellion against westward expansion (May 1763)
Pontiac's rebellion
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Act (Obtober 1763) to curb westward expansion
The Proclamation Line
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The Plan of 1764 limitied what type of trade?
fur
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Act in 1764 which placed reduced the duty on ***** to half a shilling.
The Sugar Act
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This act placed a ban on paper money (1764)
The Currency Act
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Which assembly defended their right to levy taxes (1764)
Massachusetts
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The act that required all paper to have a stamp printed on it so the colonists paid tax (1765)
The Stamp Act
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The group name given to the 7 policies put forward to the Virgnia Assembly (29th May 1765)
The Virginia Resolves
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The event in which the 'Declaration of Rights and Grievences' was agreed (June 1765)
The Stamp Act Congress
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The group of radicals led by Samuel Adams
The Loyal Nine
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The effergies of Oliver and Brute were hung from ? (14th August 1765)
Liberty Tree
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The leaders of mob action became know as
The Sons of Liberty
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British Government voted on this with the result of 275 votes to 167 (March 1766)
The repeal of the Stamp Act
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This was imposed straight after the Stamp Act (March 1766)
The Declaratory Act
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A new act in which new duties were introduced on colonial imports of glass, wine and china (May 1766)
The Townsend Duties
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An act regarding the accommodation of British Troops in New York (March 1767)
The New York Restraining Act
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All colonies apart from this one agree to boycott British Goods (1769)
New Hampshire
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Fighting between New Yorkers and British troops broke out in the street and was know as (January 1770)
The Battle of Golden Hill
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Started by a snaowball fight outside the Customs House (March 1770)
The Boston Massacre
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Agreed by Grafton to reduce damage in the colonies and to better relationships (April 1770)
Repeal of the Townsend Duties
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The organisation of the colonies (September 1771)
Committees of Correspondence
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An event in which a ship ran aground and the contents were burnt (June 1772)
The Gaspee Incident
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An act to save the nearly bankrupt East India Company (May 1773)
The Tea Act
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An event involving the ships the Dartmouth, The Eleanor and the Beaver (December 1773)
The Boston Tea Party
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The sons of liberty dressed up as what kind of indians?
Mohawk
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Also known as the Intolerable acts (Spring 1774)
Coercive
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This act saw the expansion of a previously French Territory (July 1774)
The Quebec Acts
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Which ship had their contents thrown over board in retalliation for the expansion of a territory? (March 1773)
Nancy
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A meeting between radicals and moderates in Philadelphia (September 1774)
First Continental Congress
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Troops were sent from Boston to this place to arrest members of the Provincial Congress (April 1775)
Concord
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The troops passed through this place where they were blocked by 70 minutemen (19th April 1775)
Lexington
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Members of this committee warned the Massachusetts millita that they were going to be arrested
the Boston Committee of Safety
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The colonists seized this fort (10th May 1775)
Fort Ticonderoga
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This fell shortly after FT (12th May 1775)
Crown Point
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A second meeting between all the colonies which saw 65 delegates appear from all colonies (10th May 1775)
The Second Continental Congress
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This figure would lead the armies
George Washington
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The gathering adopted this doccument which listed colonial grievances since 1763 (6th July 1775)
The Declaration for the Causes and Necessities of Taking up Arms
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A petition sent to the King of ENgland to beg for reconcilliation if he prevented hostile measures towards the colonies (8th July 1775)
Olive Branch
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A full frontal attack launched on the British by Howe and the colonists outside of Boston (June 1775)
The Battle of Bunker Hill
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An act which stated the rebellious colonies to be outside the Protection of the crown (22nd December 1775)
the Prohibitory Act
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A 47 page doccument which expressed the changing mood in the colonies (January 1776)
Common Sense
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The official doccument which signified the separation of the Colonies from America (4th July 1776)
the Declaration of Independence
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Where delegates were sent to Virginia to discuss Indan Policy (July 1747)

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The Albany Congress

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Fort taken over by the French (1754)

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The fort was renamed (1754)

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Leader of the 2000 British reinforcements (July 1755)

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