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French and Indian War
was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the seven years' war. -
Proclamation of 1763
Following Great Britain's acquisition of french territory in North America after the end of the Seven Years' War. -
Sugar Act
British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses form the French and Dutch West -
Stamp Act of 1765
was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp. -
Townshend Acts
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
in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. -
Tea Act
the 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. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773. -
Intolerable Acts
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 Congressional Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States.