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French and Indian War
Was started by George Washington near Fort Duquesne. BOth the colonists and British fought the French. They taxed the colonist to get out of debt. -
Stamp Act
Tax on 50 paper documents and colonist were upset because tax was passed without consent of colonial assemblies -
Stamp Act Congress
The Tea Act was one of many tax acts enforced by Britain on the colonies. This was the first attempt at colonial unity against the British. The Parliament responded with harsher rules and the war started 2 years later. -
Quartering Act
Required colonists to house British troops. -
Townshend Duties
Tax on imports like lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
Boston Massacre
There was conflict between colonists and Redcoats. 5 colonists were killed. -
Tea Party
One of several measures imposed on the American colonists by the indebted British government in the decade leading up to the American Revolutionary War . The main purpose was to bail out the East India Company. -
Boston Tea Act
The dumping of the tea in the harbor was the most destructive act the colonist had done against Britain so far. -
1st Continental
Was compromised of delegates from the colonies, met in reaction to the Intolerable Acts, a series of measures imposed by the British Government in response to their resistance to new taxes. -
Intolerable Acts
Closed the port of Boston until damages were paid off from the incidents of the Tea Act.. Colonial Government power was reduced
