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the french and britian fought over land
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created a boundary, known as the proclamation line, separating the British colonies on the Atlantic coast from American Indian lands west of the Appalachian Mountains
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Revenue Act 1764 or the American Duties Act, was a revenue-raising act through the colonial customs service and to give customs agents more power and latitude with respect to executing seizures and enforcing customs law
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tax on paper
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riot that occurred on March 5, 1770, 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. 5 peopledied
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closed the port of Boston and demanded that the city's residents pay nearly $1 each
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protest by the sons of liberty where they threw tea into the harbor
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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 to the detriment of colonial goods.
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meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts
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first formal statement by a nation’s people asserting their right to choose their own government
