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The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "Patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. -
The French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was north America in a bigger imperial war between Great Britain and France was also known as 7 year o war. The French and Indian War pitted the colonies of the British America against those of New France, both of the sides supported by military units from the parent country also by the Native American allies. -
The proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide. England's attempt to end Indian's problems by preventing westward movement by colonist. The colonist were going to push them off the their lands and expanding the westward. -
Stamp Act of 1763
The Parliament passed the Currency Act, Prime Minister Grenville proposed a stamp tax. -
The Sugar Act
The Sugar Act is also known as or called the Plantation Act or Revenue Act. The British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies and at provide increase revenues to fund enlarged British Empire responsibilities following the French and Indian War. -
Townshend Acts of 1766
The people taxed good imported to the American Colonies. The American colonist saw the acts as an abuse of power. -
Tea Act
The tea act granted the company the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies without first landing it in England, and to commission agents who would have the sole right to sell tea in the colonies. The Tea Act purpose is that it was one of several measures imposed on the American colonists by the heavily indebted British government in the decade leading up to American Revolution. -
Boston Tea Party
American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16 1773. The British East India Company to sell tea rom China in American Colonies without paying taxes apart from those imposed by the Townshend Acts. -
Intolerable Acts
Intolerable Acts also known as Coercive Acts were package of five laws implemented by the British government with the purpose of restoring authority in its colonies.
