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French and Indian War
The North American war between France and Great Britian. -
Proclamation of 1763
The proclamation of 1763 was issued by the British Board of Trade under King George III of England after the French and Indian war in order to accomplish several many goals. -
Sugar Act
A law passed on by the British Parliament in 1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market. -
The Stamp Act
An act of the British Parliament for raising revenue in the American Colonies by requiring the use of stamps and stamped paper for official documents. -
Townshed Acts
The act that placed paper, tea, paint, and lead imported into the American Colonies. -
Boston Massacre
A riot in Boston that raised from the resentment of Boston Colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in wich the troop fired on the mob and killed several people. -
Boston Tea Party
A raid on three ships in Boston Harbor in wich Boston colonists, disguised as Indians, threw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against British taxes on tea and against the monopoly granted the East India Company. -
Intolerable Acts
A series of laws passed by the British in 1774 in an attempt to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party.
