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The French and Indian War
The French and Indian war was an event were the French and Indian allied to conquer British land. -
Treaty of Paris
It ended the 7 year French and Indian war were the French had to give up their mainland in North America. It ended all the threats from the French to the British. -
Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation was a Line produced by the British. The British created a boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains. -
Sugar Act
The British aimed to end the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Indians. -
Stamp Act
An act imposed to provide increased revenues for the cost of defending the enlarged British empire. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend acts was a series of laws passed by the British onto the American colonies. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a fight that occurred when British soldiers in Boston opened fire on a group of American colonist. -
The Gaspee Affair
It was a British revenue cutter that prevented smuggling and collecting taxes from ships entering Rhode Island ports, -
The Boston Tea Party
It was a a political protest in Boston, Massachusetts from the American colonist frustrated and angry at Britain fo taxation. The colonist dumped tea shipment (Taxation without representation). -
The Intolerable Acts
The intolerable acts were five laws passed by the British parliament against the American Colonies. -
The battles of Lexington and Concord
The first battle between the American Minutemen and British army. An American victory forcing a British withdrawal from the country side back to Boston. -
Washington crosses the Delaware
Washington and the Continental army struck back on Christmas night by stealthily crossing the Delaware river, making a surprise attack against the Hessian garrison at Trenton at dawn. -
Battle of Long Island
A battle which the British army successfully moved against the American Continental Army.