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The French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was the beginning of open hostilities between the colonies and Gr. Britain. Britain required raw materials including copper, hemp, tar, and turpentine. They also required a great deal of money, and so they provided that all of these American products be shipped exclusively to England. -
The Albany Congress
From seven colonies, representative met with 150 Iroquois Chiegs in Albany, New York. They tried to secure the support and cooperation of the Iroquois in fighting with the French, and to also form a colonial alliance based on a design by Benjamin Franklin. These purposes of the Albany Congress were twofold. The plan was passed unanimously. They would have to provide for the coordinated taxation and militia forces to defend the frontiers. -
Proclimation
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The Sugar Act
The Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act, which was about to expire. The Sugar Act reduced the rate of tax on molasses from six pence to three pence per gallon, while Grenville took measures that the duty be strictly enforced...! -
The Stamp Act
The bill was passed on February 17, approved by the Lords on March 8th, and two weeks later ordered in effect by the King. -
The Declaratory Act
Several of the houses of representatives in his Majesty's colonies and plantations in America, have of late, against law, claimed to themselves, or to the general assemblies of the same, the sole and exclusive right of imposing duties and taxes upon his Majesty's subjects in the said colonies and plantations. -
The Townshend Revenue Act
Taxes on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea were applied with the design of raising $40,000 a year for the administration of the colonies. Crowds mdded the custom office, forcing the officials to retire to a British Warship in the Harbor. -
Boston Non-Importation Agreement
The merchants and traders in the town of Boston having taken into consideration the deplorable situation of the trade, and the many difficulties it at present labours under on account of the scarcity of money. By which our principal sources of remittance are like to be greatly diminished, and we thereby rendered unable to pay the debts we owe the merchants in Great Britain, and to continue the importation of goods from thence -
The Boston Massacre
This was a street fight that ocurred on March 5,1770, between a "patriot" mob. They were throwing stones, snowballds, sticks and a squad of British Soldiers. The presence of British troops in the city of Boston was increasingly unwelcome. -
The Gaspee Affair
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The Tea Act
The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes. The Townshend Duties were still in place, however, and the radical leaders in America found reason to believe that this act was a maneuver to buy popular support for the taxes already in force. -
Massachusetts Government Act
An acr for the better regulating the government of the province of the Massachuset's Bay, in New England. Whereas the method of electing such counsellors or assistants, to be vested with the several powers, authorities, and privileges, therein mentioned, in which the appointment of the respective governors had been vested in the general courts or assemblies of the said colonies, hash -
Battle of Bunker Hill
On the night at June 16, 1775 a detail of American troops acting under orders from artemas ward moved out of their camp, carrying picks, shovels, and guns. They entrenched themselves on a rise located on Charleston Peninsula overlooking Boston. Their destination: Bunker Hill