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End of The Seven Years War
French and Indian was the first known global war which was the French VS Indians and the English VS Indians. -
The Sugar Act
The law lowered the tax on molasses but increases tax on smuggling and collecting the duties. -
The Currency Act
The currency act regulated paper money issued by the British. This act was meant to protect British merchants and creditors from being paid in colonial currency -
The Quartering Acts
This act made it be required for colonies to provide housing and necessities to troops who were stationed after the French and Indian war. -
The Townsend Act
The British government attempted to propose taxes for all of the British products bought by the American colonists. -
Boston Massacre
What started off originally as a Snowball and rock fight between a group of colonist and British soldiers escalated to five colonist being shot dead. -
The Tea Act
Passed by parliament in Britain to allow English tea to be marketable which lead to the Boston tea party. Gave British India a percentage on tea tax. -
The Boston Tea party
The Boston Patriots went out dressed as Indians and made their way to three British ships and dumped all of their tea into the harbor. -
The Intolerable Acts
This act was passed as a way to punish colonists for their lack of defiance in the Boston tea party. -
The First Continental Congress
Delegates from every colony met in Philadelphia, PA to discuss the Coercive Acts. The Coercive Acts lead to colonial unity. -
The Battle of Lexington and Concord
The American colonies gained anger for the British for over so many years. This lead to the Revolutionary War. -
The Stamp Act
Colonists were forced to pay taxes in almost all printed materials, which led to protests and Enlightenment ideas.
