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French and Indian War
This was a time when the U.S. and the people in Canada were fighting over the border rights. -
Proclamation of 1763
When the royal crown gave more land to the settlers. -
Sugar act
When they raised taxes on the sweeteners and they had to pay for it. -
The stamp act
The stamp act was when the royal crown raised the taxes on stamps. -
Townshed Acts
The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed, beginning in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British,[2] was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party (initially referred to by John Adams as "the Destruction of the Tea in Boston"[2]) was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. -
Intolerable acts
The Intolerable Acts was the American Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. In Great Britain, these laws were referred to as the Coercive Acts.