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French and Indian war
North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years’ War. -
Sugar Act
Act that put a 3 cent tax on foreign refined sugar and increased taxes on coffee, indigo, and certain kinds of wine. It banned importation of rum and french wines. -
Stamp Act
The new tax 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 money collected by the Stamp Act was to be used to help pay the costs of defending and protecting the American frontier near the Appalachian Mountains . -
Quartering Act
An act that required the colonists to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonists . -
Declaratory Act
Stated that parliament had the right to tax and make decisions for the American colonies. -
Boston Massacre
A street fight between a patriot mob and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed. -
Tea Act
The act’s main purpose was not to raise revenue from the colonies but to bail out the floundering East India Company, a key actor in the British economy -
Boston Tea Party
Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard -
Intolerable Act
They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
Battle of Lexington
A skirmish between minute men and the redcoats 8mm died .
