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The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773. -
What happened in the French and Indian war?
The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. -
The Proclamation Line of 1763 was a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide. -
The Sugar Act reduced the rate of tax on molasses from six pence to three pence per gallon, while Grenville took measures that the duty be strictly enforced. -
The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British Parliament. -
The Townshend Acts, named after Charles Townshend, British chancellor of the Exchequer, imposed duties on British china, glass, lead, paint, paper and tea imported to the colonies. -
The Boston Massacre was a confrontation on March 5, 1770, in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. -
The Intolerable Acts were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. -
The First Continental Congress was in Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, between September 5 and October 26, 1774. -
The Tea Act 1773 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain.