-
the war began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763 -
was a British produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the eastern Continental Divide -
reduced the rate of tax on molasses from six pence to three pence per gallon -
forced colonist to buy a British stamp for every official document they obtained -
placed new taxes and took away some freedoms from the colonist -
a street fight between a angry mob throwing snowballs, sticks, rocks at a group of British soldiers -
the financial problems of the British East India Company and an ongoing dispute about the extent of Parliament's authority over the British American colonies without seating any elected representation. -
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. -
the Massachusetts Government Act, which replaced the elective local government with an appointive one and increased the powers of the military governor -
signaled the start of the American Revolutionary war -
a final attempt by the colonists to avoid going to war with Britain during the American Revolution