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Aka The Seven Years' War, provided Great Britain with enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution.
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The Proclamation Line of 1763 was a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide. Colonists were forced to leave the land they had already settled upon and it was given to the natives and prohibited colonists from settling across the line. This act unifies the colonist for the first time.
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The British started to reduce tax on the imported sugar with increased enforcement of the tax in hopes of ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies. Thus providing increased revenues to fund enlarged British Empire responsibilities following the French and Indian war.
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An Act of the Parliament of Great Britain imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp.
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The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot that occurred 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. The event was heavily publicized by leading Patriots such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams.
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The Boston tea party was an incident in which 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians.
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British Parliament passes the Boston Port Act, closing the port of Boston and demanding that the city's residents pay for the nearly one million dollars worth of tea dumped into Boston Harbor during the Boston Tea Party.
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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 Government. These punishments included the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act.
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The Continental Congress was used as the government of the 13 colonies and later the United States. They were the first to take a momentous step of declaring America's independence from Great Britain by starting to boycott British-made goods.
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The Declaration of Independence was the founding document of the United States and was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. This document announced the separation of 13 colonies from Great Britain's rule.
