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•CHAPTER 5

•Triumph and Tensions:
The British Empire, 1750–1763

•A Fragile Peace, 1750–1754

•The Seven Years’ War in America, 1754–1760

•The End of French North America, 1760–1763

•Anglo-American Friction

•Frontier Tensions

•The Seven Years’ War
in North America 1754–1760

•European Territorial
Claims, 1763

•Imperial Authority, Colonial
Opposition, 1760–1766

•Writs of Assistance, 1760–1761

•The Sugar Act, 1764

•The Stamp Act Crisis, 1765–1766

• Ideology, Religion, and Resistance

•Resistance Resumes, 1766–1770

•Opposing the Quartering Act, 1766–1767 

•Crisis Over the Townshend Duties, 1767–1770

•Women and Colonial Resistance 139

•Customs “Racketeering,” 1767–1770

•“Wilkes and Liberty,” 1768–1770

•The Deepening Crisis, 1770–1774

•The Boston Massacre, 1770

•The Committees of Correspondence, 1772–1773

•Conflicts in the Backcountry

•The Tea Act, 1773

•Toward Independence, 1774–1776

•Liberty for African-Americans

•The “Intolerable Acts”

•The First Continental Congress

•From Resistance to Rebellion

•Common Sense

•Declaring Independence

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