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 The royal proclamation of 1763 

did much to dampen that 

celebration. The proclamation, in 

effect, closed off the frontier to 

colonial expansion. The King and 

his council presented the 

proclamation as a measure to 

calm the fears of the 

On February 6th, 1765 George 

Grenville rose in Parliament to 

offer the fifty-five resolutions of 

his Stamp Bill. A motion was 

offered to first read petitions 

from the Virginia colony and 

others was denied. 

AN ACT to amend and render 

more effectual, in his Majesty's 

dominions in America, an act 

passed in this present session of 

parliament, intituled, An act for 

punishing mutiny and desertion, 

and for the better payment of 

the army and their quarters.

AN ACT for granting certain duties in 

the British colonies and plantations in 

America for allowing a drawback of the 

duties of customs upon the exportation 

from this kingdom, of coffee and cocoa 

nuts of the produce of the said colonies 

or plantations for discontinuing the 

drawbacks payable on china earthen 

ware exported to America

The Boston Massacre was a street fight 

that occurred on March 5, 1770, 

between a "patriot" mob, throwing 

snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a 

squad of British soldiers.

On the evening of December 16, 1773, a 

group of men calling themselves the "Sons of 

Liberty" went to the Boston Harbor. The men 

were dressed as Mohawk Indians. They 

boarded three British ships, the Beaver, the 

Eleanor and the Dartmouth, and dumped 

forty-five tons of tea into the Boston Harbor.

The government spent immense sums 

of money on troops and equipment in 

an attempt to subjugate 

Massachusetts. British merchants had 

lost huge sums of money on looted, 

spoiled, and destroyed goods shipped 

to the colonies.

The Articles of Confederation was the first 

constitution of the United States of America 

and specified how the national government 

was to operate. The Second Continental 

Congress appointed a committee to draft the 

Articles in June 1776 and sent the draft to the 

states for ratification in November 1777.

 Text of the 1778 Franco-American 

treaty, in a 1782 publication.The Treaty 

of Alliance, also called The Treaty of 

Alliance with France, was a defensive 

alliance between France and the United 

States of America, formed in the midst 

of the American Revolutionary War, 

Increasing numbers of settlers and land 

speculators were attracted to what are now the 

states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and 

Wisconsin

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