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French-Indian War (1756-1763)
The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America. -
Navigation Acts (1763)
a series of laws passed by the British Parliament that imposed restrictions on colonial trade. -
Stamp Act
required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards -
Quartering Act
an American colonial history, the British parliamentary provision (actually an amendment to the annual Mutiny Act) -
Townshend Acts
which initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. Nonimportation. -
Boston Massacre
seven British soldiers fired into a crowd of volatile Bostonians, killing five, wounding another six, and angering an entire colony