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French and Indian War begins
The French and Indian War was fought because when the French expaned over the ohio river valley is caused a lot of problems for the British. So the British offical declared war in 1763 after battling the French in a few small battles. -
French and Indian War ends
French and Indian War was ended sometime after Spain had joined the French against British because the British started trying to gain spain territory. They decided to hold a peace confrence and by the end of the confrence the British had Canada and Florida. and the French and Spainsh kept the rest of their territories. -
Proclamation of 1763
Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Stamp Act
Stamp Act was an act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. Colonial opposition led to the act's repeal in 1766 and helped encourage the revolutionary movement against the British Crown. -
Townshend Acts
The townshend acts were a series of acts passed, beginning in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacrewas a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed. -
Tea Act
Tea Act was the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on the American colonies. The policy ignited a “powder keg” of opposition and resentment among American colonists. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were a seires of laws to punish the colonist for dumping the tea in to the ocean. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was where over 100 colonist dressed up as indians and dumped over 45 tons of tea in to the ocean because of the tea act -
Lexington and Concord
The battles Lexington and Concordwere the first millitary movements in the revlationary war. -
Declaration of Independence
Declaration of Independencewas signed severing the colonies connections to Britian.
