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The French and Indiana War
The French and Indiana War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years War. The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war’s expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution. -
Taxes
Britain was in a recession after the war, so it created taxes for the colonies in America. The British Parliament put taxes on sugar and molasses and enforced tax collection. -
The Proclamation of 1763
Declared by the British crown at the end of the French and Indian War in North American, mainly intended to appease the Native Americans by checking the intruders on their land. -
Sugar Act
Sugar Act was the first tax on the American colonies imposed by the British Parliament. It's purpose was to raise revenue through the colonial customs service and to give customs agents more power and latitude with respect to executing seizures and enforcing customs laws. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their resistance in the Boston Tea protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the damage of colonial goods. -
Boston Blockade
The Boston Blockade was designed to punish the inhabitants of Boston, Massachusetts for the incident that would became known as the Boston Tea Party. -
Continental Congress
The Continental Congress served as the government of the 13 American colonies and later the United States. The First Continental Congress, which was comprised of delegates from the colonies, met in 1774 in reaction to the Coercive Acts, a series of measures imposed by the British government on the colonies in response to their resistance to new taxes. -
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was the first formal statement by a nation's people claiming their right to choose their own government.
