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French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was the North American war of the Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France. The French and Indian War started in 1754 and ended in 1763 with the Treaty of Paris. The war gave Great Britain substantial territorial gains in North America, but disagreements about following frontier policy and the payment of war expenditures fueled colonial dissatisfaction and, ultimately, the American Revolution. -
Proclamation of 1763
The King George III Proclamation Line of 1763 was a British-made border set in the Appalachian Mountains near the Eastern Continental Divide. The Proclamation Line, established on October 7, 1763, banned Anglo-American colonists from settling on territory obtained from the French during the French and Indian War. -
Sugar Act
In U.S. colonial history, the Sugar Act, also known as the Plantation Act or the Revenue Act, was British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies and providing increased revenues to fund the expanded British Empire responsibilities following the French and Indian War. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act of 1765 ordered that British soldiers be housed in barracks provided by the colonies. If the barracks were too small to house all of the men, the soldiers were to be housed at local inns, livery stables, ale houses, victualing houses, and wine merchants' residences. -
• Townshend Acts
• Townshend Actsv