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French and Indian War
French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. -
Proclamation of 1763
Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the Seven Years' War -
Sugar Act
refined
sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market. -
Stamp Act of 1765
The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. -
Townshend Acts
They placed new taxes and took away some freedoms -
The Boston Massacre
a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. -
Tea Act
that was designed to bail out the British East India Company and expand the company's monopoly on the tea trade to all British Colonies, selling excess tea at a reduced price. -
Boston Tea Party
American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea -
Intolerable Acts
laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party -
1st Congressional Congress
Carpenter's Hall was also the seat of the Pennsylvania Congress