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The French and Indian war
The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution. -
The Proclamation of 1763
The 1763 Declaration was a boundary line created by the British, marked in the Appalachian Mountains of the Eastern Continental Divide. -
The Sugar Act
The British law was intended to stop the sugar and molasses smuggling trade in the French and Dutch West Indies and to increase imports to finance the British Empire's post-war debt expansion. -
Stamp Act of 1766
Instead of levying tariffs on traded goods, the Import Stamp Act introduced a direct tax on colonists. In particular, the law required, beginning in the fall of 1765, to have tax stamps provided by authorized distributors who collected taxes in return for receiving the stamps in legal documents and printed materials. -
Townshend Acts of 1767
The Townshend Acts were a series of measures passed by the British Parliament in 1767 that imposed taxes on goods imported into the American colonies. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot on King Street in Boston on March 5, 1770. It all started as a street fight between American colonists and lonely British soldiers, but quickly escalated into a chaotic carnage. This conflict heightened anti-national sentiment and paved the way for the American Revolution. -
Tea act
the British Parliament passed the Tea Act of 1773. This law gave the company the right to an authorized agent who would have the exclusive right and right to deliver tea directly to the colonies without first planting it in England. The right to sell tea in the colony. -
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
series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
1st Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress convened in Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, between September 5 and October 26, 1774. Delegates from twelve of Britain's thirteen American colonies met to discuss America's future under growing British aggression.