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The French and Indian War
The was provided Great Britain enormous territorials 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 Line of 1763
The proclamation line prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling on lands acquired from the French and Indian war -
The Sugar Act
British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies at providing increased revenues to fund enlarge British Empire responsibilities following the French and Indian -
Stamp Act of 1766
The act was repealed on 18 March 1766 as a matter of expedience. -
Townshend Act of 1767
Taxed goods imported to the American colonies. -
The Boston Massacre
British sentries guarding the Boston customs house shot into a crowd of civilians, killing three man and injuring eight, two of them mortally. -
Tea Act
The act granted the company the right the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies without first landing it in England. -
Boston Tea Party
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
They are punitive laws passed by the British parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. -
1st Continental Progress
Delegates discussed boycotting British goods to establish the rights of Americas and planned for a Second Continental Congress.