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- The French and Indian War took place between the American colonies and New France This war lasted from 1754 to 1763.
- Causes of the Revolution
- Prior to 1764, the British government had pretty much left the colonists alone to govern themselves n 1764, they began to impose new laws and taxes.
- Many colonists began to protest against these new British taxes and laws This incident became known as the Boston Massacre.
- The British decided that the colonies needed to be punished for the Boston Tea Party. They issued a number of new laws that the colonists called the Intolerable Acts.
- In 1774, twelve of the thirteen colonies sent representatives to the First Continental Congress as a direct response to the Intolerable Acts They sent a petition to King George III to repeal the Intolerable Acts. They never got a response.
- In 1775, British soldiers in Massachusetts were ordered to disarm the American rebels and to arrest their leaders
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