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Tea Act
British Parliament passed the Tea Act in 1773. The act granted the company the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies without first landing it in England -
The French and Indian war
The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war gave Great Britain territorial gains. -
The Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation Line of 1763 was a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide. Prohibited colonists from settling on lands. -
The Sugar Act
British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French. providing increased revenues to fund enlarged British Empires. -
Stamp Act of 1766
help pay for British troops stationed in the colonies during the Seven Years' War. The act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp. -
Townshend Acts of 1767
taxed goods imported to the American colonies. But American colonists, who had no representation in Parliament, saw the Acts as an abuse of power. -
Boston Massacre
a patriot mob attacked a British loyalist, who fired a gun at them, killing a boy. In the ensuing days brawls between colonists and British soldiers eventually culminated in the Boston Massacre. -
Boston Tea Party
American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing taxation without representation dumped 342 chests of te, imported by the British Company into the harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest -
1 Continental Congress
The primary accomplishment of the First Continental Congress was a compact among the colonies to boycott British goods beginning on December 1, 1774, unless parliament should rescind the Intolerable Acts.