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American Revolution timeline
1754
Benjamin Franklin's chopped-up snake, urging union of the colonies with the caption 'Join or Die', is the first American political cartoon
1754
Benjamin Franklin proposes to the Albany Congress that the colonies should unite to form a colonial government
1764
Britain passes the Sugar Act, levying duty on sugar, wine and textiles imported into America
1765
Britain passes the Stamp Act, taxing legal documents and newspapers in the American colonies
1765
American campaigners against the Stamp Act organize themselves as the Sons of Liberty in Massachusetts and New York
1766
Britain repeals the Stamp Act, in a major reversal of policy achieved by resistance in the American colonies
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