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The French and Indian War was a conflict between Britain and France in North America, ultimately resulting in British victory and the redrawing of territorial boundaries. -
The Navigation Acts were a series of British laws that aimed to control colonial trade by restricting the use of foreign ships and requiring certain goods to be only shipped to England or its colonies. -
The Stamp Act was a British law that required American colonists to pay a tax on printed materials, such as newspapers and legal documents, by purchasing official stamps. -
The Quartering Act required American colonists to provide housing and supplies to British soldiers stationed in the colonies. -
initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
The Boston Massacre was a confrontation in Boston, in which nine British soldiers shot several of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles. -
The Boston Tea Party was a protest where American colonists, frustrated by British taxation without representation, threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to oppose the Tea Act.