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French and Indian war
French & Britain fighting over Ohio River Valley -
proclamation of 1763
to restrict American colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains -
Sugar act
Limiting sugar products could buy and sell -
Stamp act
Required Colonists to purchase Stamps for all Official paper publications -
Quartering act
Colonists were required to pay for the housing of British soldiers -
Town shed act
Imposed taxes that colonists that colonists had to pay on tea, glass, lead, paper and paint products -
Boston Massacre
TURNING POINT
colonists were scared that British were using violence against them.
a deadly massacre that occurred on King Street in Boston -
Tea act
colonists were only allowed to purchase tea from British merchants -
Boston tea party
was a political Protest at Britain for imposing “Taxation with representation” -
intolerable acts
was in response to the Boston tea party, to punish colonist -
Quartering acts
as a part of the Intolerable acts as a response to the Boston tea party -
battles of Lexington and concord
shot heard around the war -
Olive branch petition
was the colonists attempt of trying to make peace with Britain