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The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War. -
The French and Indian War was a theater of the Seven Years' War, A war between France and England . Because of the French Indian War England taxed . -
declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. -
To help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
British soldiers fired upon a group of rowdy colonists, killing five and wounding others -
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. -
a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party -
allowed royal governors, rather than colonial legislatures, to find homes and buildings to quarter or house British soldiers
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were some of the leading military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
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to plan further responses if the British government did not repeal or modify the acts;
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a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. -
summarized the colonists' motivations for seeking independence.