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French and Indian war
french and indian war-The French and Inidan War was the last and the most important of four North America wars. Territorial rivalries between Brtain and France had become stronger as the two countries settlements expanded. The war began in the struggle of control of the Ohio Valley. -
Quartering Act
This act required British colonists, against their will, to house and feed British militiamen and army members. -
Stamp Act Congress
delegates from nine colonies were the members of the congress and their responsibility was to draft a set of formal petitions stating why Parliament had no right to tax them -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was a law introduced by the British prime minister George Greenville. The purpose of the Stamp Act was to pay for some of the costs ofo the French and Indian War. This was to be the direct tax on the American colonies. -
townshend duties
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 programme. -
boston massacre
This was the result of tensions between British officers and and protesters. The british officers shot and killed five male civilians. This was known as " The Shot Heard Round The World" -
tea act
Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. Its principal over objective was to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive -
boston tea party
The colonist were very angry about the taxes in the colonies. A group of colonist called The Sons of Liberty threatened the tax collectors that something bad was going to happen. A ship carrying British tea was taken over and the tea was dumped into the harbor. -
first Congress Meeting
Made the King angry because he was losing more control of the colony -
intolerable act
The Intolerable Acts was the American Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor.
