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French and Indian War
The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expense led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution -
Proclamation of 1763
It forbade all settlement west of a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains, which delineated as an Indian Reserve. -
Sugar Act
In 1764 Parliament passed as thje Sugar Act, with the goal of raising 100,000 pounds, an amount equal to one-fifth of the military expenses in North America. -
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
The Townshend Acts were a series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies in 1767. -
The Boston Massacre
It began as a street brawl between American colonists and a lone British solider, but quickly escalated to a chaotic, bloody slaughter. -
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
American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing "taxation without representation," dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British India Company into the harbor. -
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, which was comprised of delegates from the colonies, met in 1774 in reaction to Coercive Acts, a series of measures imposed by the British government on the colonies in response to their resistance to new taxes.