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The French and Indian war
The French and Indian war was a long struggle between France and Britain over which country controlled North America. During the war, the Cherokee Indians sided with the French. In the end the British were victorious and gained control over much more land than the French. -
The proclamation of 1763
This proclamation forbid settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. This was enacted to make peace amount the new settlers in the colonies and the Native American tribes around the Appalachian mountain area. -
The Sugar Act
Parliament put a tax on importing molasses sugar and other imported goods. This app also enforced harsh punishment for smugglers which angered many colonial merchants. -
The Stamp Act
Required all people in the colonies to purchase special tax stamps for all paper products such as newspapers, wills, licenses, insurance policies, land titles, contracts, and other documents. -
The Quartering Act
This act was made to enforce the proclamation of 1763 by keeping soldiers (about 10,000) in the colonies thus forcing the colonist to house British troops if there was not enough room in the barracks and give the troops all the supplies they needed. -
The Boston massacre
In Boston a group of workers, mad about all the taxes threw snowballs and rocks at a group of British soldiers, the soldiers responded by firing into the crowd killing five people and wounding six. -
The battle of Alamance
People from North Carolina who call themselves the regulators protested about all of the unfair taxes and local control. In their final battle in the war of the regulation they gathered at Alamance creek. The governor William tyron demanded that they disperse and when they did not he ordered the militia the fire on them, the battle lasted a couple of hours and in the end when the regulators ran out of ammunition and fled into the woods because they had no commander and no organization. -
The Tea act and the Boston Tea Party
The Tea Act forced the colonist to only be allowed to buy tea from the East India Trading Company. Even though it was lower priced some colonists and the merchants were mad that the East India trading Company had a monopoly on selling tea to the colonies.
Members of the sons of liberty, in Boston, protested the Tea Act by dressing up like Indians and dumping 90,000 pounds of tea into the Boston Harbor. -
The battle of Lexington and Concord
These battles started the American Revolutionary war. The purpose of the battle at Lexington was for the British army to capture the rebel leaders Samual Adams and John Hancock. In Concorde the British army wanted to destroy them American store of weapons and ammunition. But thankfully for Paul Revere and the other riders a colonists were warned and Samuel Adams and John Hancock were able to escape, and the local militia got to hide lots of their weapons and ammunition. -
The Intolerable Acts (also called the coercive acts)
In response to the Boston tea party Parliament passed four laws which were called the intolerable acts because they were so harsh. The four acts closed the port of Boston, increased the power of the Royal Governor, abolished the upper house of the Massachusetts legislator, cut the powers of town meetings and strengthen the 1765 quartering act.
