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| The French and Indian War is the common U.S. name for the war between Great Britain and France in North America from 1754 to 1763. It was Britain and North America versus France and the Native Americans, basically, and was the first bit of tension between the colonies and Britain. |
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| It was an early attempt by Benjamin Franklin at forming a union of the colonies "under one government as far as might be necessary for defense and other general important purposes" during the French and Indian War. |
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| Pontiac's Uprising (1763) |
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| Post-French and Indian War uprising of the Native Americans against the new British policies. |
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| The Paxton Boys was a vigilante group that murdered twenty Native Americans in events sometimes called the Conestoga Massacre. |
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| North Carolina uprising, lasting from approximately 1764 to 1771, where citizens took up arms against corrupt colonial officials. While unsuccessful, some historians consider it a catalyst to the American Revolutionary War. |
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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. The purpose of the proclamation was to organize Great Britain's new North American empire and to stabilize relations with Native North Americans. |
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| Revenue-raising act passed by British Parliament in 1764. This stimulated the upset about taxation without representation. |
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| The act required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London and carrying an embossed revenue stamp. |
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| The Stamp Act Congress was a meeting in the building that would become Federal Hall in New York City on October 19, 1765 consisting of delegates from 9 of the 13 colonies that discussed and acted upon the recently passed Stamp Act. Very unpopular proceedings came from the Stamp Act Congress, which produced an equally unpopular Declaration of Rights and Grievances. |
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| Adams was a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, and was one of the architects of the principles of American republicanism that shaped the political culture of the United States. He was a second cousin to John Adams. |
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| The Sons of Liberty was a political group made up of American patriots that originated in the pre-independence North American British colonies. The group was designed to incite change in the British government's treatment of the Colonies in the years following the end of the French and Indian War. |
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| "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania" |
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| Coercive Acts/Intolerable Acts (1774) |
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| Nonimportation and Nonconsumption Agreements |
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| First Continental Congress |
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| Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" |
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| Committees of Correspondence |
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| Lexington & Concord (1775) |
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| Second Continental Congress (1775) |
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| Battle of Yorktown (1781) |
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| Newburgh Conspiracy (1783) |
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| Annapolis Meetings (1786) |
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