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A series of military engagements between Britain and France in North America between 1754 and 1763.
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a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin
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British issued a proclamation, mainly intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands.
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revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain
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n 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.
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outlining the locations and conditions in which British soldiers are to find room and board in the American colonies
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that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. But American colonists, who had no representation in Parliament, saw it as an abuse of power.
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a deadly riot that occurred on March 5, 1770, on King Street in Boston. It began as a street brawl between American colonists and a lone British soldier, but quickly escalated to a chaotic, bloody slaughter.
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political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of British tea into the harbor.
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were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party
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were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
