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The English and French battled for colonial domination in North America.
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The British win the war, helping to protect the colonies.
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After the end of the French and Indian War, King George III forbade all settlements west of the heads of all rivers which flowed into the Atlantic Ocean from the west or northwest. This proclamation was to calm the fears of Indians who felt they might be driven from their lands, but was resented by the colonists.
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Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act of 1733. The Sugar Act reduced the rate of tax on molasses, but also listed more foreign goods to be taxed. This tax was going to be more strictly enforced than before.
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Parliament imposed a new tax on colonists requiring them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
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Parliament outlined locations and conditions in which British soldiers are to find room and board in the American colonies. Colonists were required to house the British soldiers.
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A street fight occurred on King Street in Boston between British Army soldiers and a “patriot” mob. Several colonists were killed. Patriots used this event to fuel hatred toward British authorities.
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A rebellion between Lord Tyron and his army, and western colonists in North Carolina over issues of taxation and local control.
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The Tea Act gave the British East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in the colonies.
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At night, a few dozen colonists dressed as Natives threw over 92,000 pounds of tea off of a boat into Boston Harbor.
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British Parliament passed a series of laws to punish the colonists in Massachusetts for their part in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston Harbor.
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The British and the colonists fight the first military battles of the American Revolutionary War on mainland British America.
