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The French and Indian War was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes. -
required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards. -
declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. -
initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
British soldiers fired upon a group of rowdy colonists, killing five and wounding others -
a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
impose even more stringent policies on the Massachusetts colony -
allowed royal governors, rather than colonial legislatures, to find homes and buildings to quarter or house British soldiers -
marked the start of the American War of Independence -
to plan further responses if the British government did not repeal or modify the acts -
a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. -
the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain.