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French and Indian War (7 Years War)
It cost the British half of their money and caused them to start taxing since they lost so much money. *lasted 9 years -
Stamp Act
Stamps were required to buy stamps for all paper. Merchants had to buy them for ship's papers and legal documents. Tavern owners were required to buy stamps for their licenses. Printers had to buy stamps for their newspapers and other publications. The stamps weren't very expensive, it just irritated the colonists becuase they had no say in the taxes. -
Stamp Act Congress
Colonists are revolting against the Stamp Act. The Virginia House of Burgesses sounded the "Trumpet of Sedition" that aroused Americians to action almost everywhere. -
Townshend Duties
The Townshend Duties are the show that England still has authority. They got rid of the Stamp Act, but started taxing a lot of other things. -
Boston Massacre
A crowd of dockworkers started pelting the sentries at the customs house with snowballs and pebbles. Captain Thomas Preston lined soldiers up in front of the building to protect it and several soldiers fired into the crowd killing 5 people. -
Tea Act
Britain's East India Company was going bankrupt and had large amounts of tea they couldn't sell in England. The Tea Act of 1773 was passed so that Britain's East India Company could export it's merchandise directly to the colonies without paying any of the navigation taxes. -
Boston Tea Party
3 companies of 50 men each dressed as Mohawks, boarded the 3 ships, broke open the tea chests and threw them into the harbor to protest the Tea Act. -
Quartering Act
Colonists were forced to house and feed any troops that came to their home and needed somewhere to stay. -
1st Continental Congress
Due to the fact that the Intolerable Acts menaced the liberties of every colony, the First Continental Congress was called. Five decisions were made. They rejected a plan for a colonial union under British authority, endorsed a statement of grievances, approved a series of resolutions, agreed to nonimportation and nonexportation, and they agreed to meet again. -
Intolerable Acts
George III and Lord North decided on a policy of coercion to be applied only to Massachusetts after the Bostonians refused to pay for the destroyed property. In 4 acts of 1773, Parliament closed the port of Boston, reduced colonial self-government, permitted royal officers to be tried in other colonies, and provided quartering of troops in colonists' barns and empty houses.
