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First Continental Congress
1774 meeting of delegates from twelve British colonies of what would become the United States
Intolerable Acts
series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774
Quebec Act of 1774
1774 law setting up Quebec as part of the British Empire
Dunmore's War
1774 war between Virginian colonist and Native Americans
Powder Alarm
major popular reaction to the removal of gunpowder from a magazine by British soldiers under orders from General Thomas Gage, royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, on September 1, 1774
Quartering Acts
acts of British Parliament requiring American colonists to house British soldiers

Suffolk Resolves
Massachusetts revolutionary declaration
Continental Association
18th century American trade boycott with England
Fort William and Mary
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Administration of Justice Act 1774
United Kingdom legislation