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It was seven years long and it was a theater of the seven years war. -
It was issued by King George 3 on October 7, 1763. It ended the Seven Years war and transferred French Territory in North America to Great Britain. -
The British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in molasses and sugar from the French and the Dutch west indies. -
Was repealed as a matter of expedience, but parliament made its power to legislate for the colonies by also passing the Declaratory Act. -
A series of British acts of Parliament passed during 1767 and 1768 relating to British colonies in America. -
Was a confrontation in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. -
The British Parliament passed the Tea Act in 1773. It granted the company the right to ship the tea directly to the colonies without first landing it in England. -
A political protest occurred at Griffin's wharf in Boston. American colonists were angry at Britain for imposing taxation without representation, and dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor. -
The intolerable acts were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were enforced to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their actions of dumping the tea into the harbor and protesting in the Boston Tea Party. -
It was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the united states.