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7 year war starts
French and Native Americans fight colonists for land occupation -
Proclamation of 1763
a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide -
7 year war ends
England goes into debt but wins war -
Sugar act
British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses -
Stamp act
The act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards. -
Townshend acts
constituted an attempt by the British government to consolidate fiscal and political power over the American colonies by placing import taxes on many of the British products bought by Americans -
Boston Massacre
A confrontation in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. -
Boston Tea Party
A protest where colonists dumped around 300 crates of tea into the ocean. -
Intolerable Acts
A set of laws meant to punish colonists for what happened at the Boston Tea Party. -
Lexington & Concord
The first war of the American Revolution. It took place in the Massachusetts towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge.