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French and Indian war
This war was between great Britain and France over the control of the Ohio River Valley. Known as the seven year war. -
Proclamation of 1763
It was after the seven year war that King George 111 made a proclamation line to separate the British colonies from American Indian lands, because they didn't want to go to war. -
Sugar Act
In grate Britain their taxing sugar to pay for the war with the Indians, even if people didn't didn't agree with this. -
Stamp Act of 1765
This was a law In New York to pay a tax on every piece of paper they got -
Townshend Acts
They were laws saying that important items such as paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea had to be taxed and the American colonists didn't like this idea. -
The Boston massacre
It was a street fight caused by the colonists that had enough of the new tax laws that they fought back the British solders, despite their efforts many didn't make it. -
Tea Act
It was a law made to lower the price of tea to help a company and to stop people from smuggled it. -
Boston Tea Party
It was a Protest by the American colonists to the British government. The protest was about tea being thrown overboard destroying so much tea. -
Intolerable Acts
This law was made to punish the ship carriers that had thrown the tea overboard In the Boston Tea party. -
1st Congressional congress
The delegates came together to end what Britain was doing to the American colonists and end the way their were being treated, to ban British goods.