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French and Indian War
North American Conflict war between Great Britain and France. It began in 1754 and ended with the treaty of Paris in 1763 -
Proclamation of 1763
Issued by King George on October 7, 1763, ending the war of seven years. It forbade all settlement west of a line drawn along the Appalachian mountains which was delineated as and Indian Reserve. -
Sugar Act
Also called Plantation, Revenue, and Molasses act, the sugar act aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies and at providing increased revenues to fund enlarged British Empire responsibilities. -
Stamp act of 1765
Required american colonists 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. -
Townshend Acts
A series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies in 1767. They placed new taxes and took away some freedoms from the colonists including the following: New taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea. -
The Boston Massacre
British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. -
Tea Act/Boston Tea party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British to the detriment of colonial goods -
1st continental congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States.