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End of French and Indian war
The French and Indian War ends with the treaties of Hubertusburg and Paris being signed in 1763. Due to the Treaty of Paris, France ends up losing all claims to Canada and giving Louisiana to Spain, on the other hand, Britain received Spanish Florida, Upper Canada, and various French holdings overseas -
The Sugar Act
The sugar act is a British law that charged taxes on sugar imported by the colonies. Several other products were also taxed. thus making many of the citizens angry -
The Currency Act
The curency act is one of many Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain. This act regulated paper money issued by the colonies of British America. the acts were made to protect british merchants and creditors from being paid in depreciated colonial currency. -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act is a British law that was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. -
The Quartering Act
The Quartering act forced the colonist to provide food and shelter for British soldiers when needed. -
The Townshend Act
The Townshend Acts placed new taxes and took away some freedoms from the colonists including New taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a confrontation on March 5, 1770 in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. All due to the unfair taxes put on products -
The Tea Act
The Tea Act was an effort to save the troubled enterprise, the British Parliament passed the Tea Act in 1773. The act granted the company the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies without first landing it in England, and to commission agents who would have the sole right to sell tea in the colonies. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts against the British government. -
The Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were a series of British measures passed that were designed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party. For example, one of the laws closed the port of Boston until the colonists paid for the tea that they had destroyed. -
Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. British troops had moved from Boston toward Lexington and Concord to seize the colonists' military supplies and arrest revolutionaries.
