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French and Indian War
this war was known as the 7 year war because it was ongoing for 7 years. -
Proclamation of 1763
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sugar act
Also known as the plantation act or the revenue act. -
Stamp Act of 1765
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. -
Townshend Acts
a series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies in 1767. They placed new taxes and took away some freedoms from the colonists including the following: New taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea. -
boston massacre
a deadly riot that killed 5 men and injured 7. it was NOT technically a massacre but the colonists called it one to make the British seem like they were worse people than they actually were. -
tea act
In an effort to save the troubled enterprise, the British Parliament passed the Tea Act in 1773. The act granted the company the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies without first landing it in England, and to commission agents who would have the sole right to sell tea in the colonies. -
boston tea party
The Boston Tea Party was a 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 tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. -
1st Congressional Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States. -
intolerable acts
The Intolerable Acts were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British to the detriment of colonial goods.