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French and Indian War
The French were pushing to far into British territory. British constantly attacked the base. British didn't want other French in settlements to join the French so cast them out to other British colonies. New British leader saw problem as a good thing and used it to his advantage. -
The proclamation
British boundary mark in the in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental divide on October 7, 1763. This prohibited Anglo-Americans from settling on land acquired by the French -
The sugar Act
The Sugar Act of 1764 was a law enacted by Britain to increase British revenues by preventing the smuggling of molasses into the American colonies and enforcing the collection of higher taxes and duties. These higher taxes were used to pay for the war. -
Stamp Act
act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. encouraged the revolutionary movement against the crown. -
Townshend act
Townshend Acts were four laws passed by the British Parliament in 1767 imposing and enforcing the collection of taxes on the American Colonists. the American colonists saw the acts as an abuse of power. When the colonists resisted, Britain sent troops to collect the taxes. -
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 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" duped 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.