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Part of the Seven Years' War;
Occurred in North America;
Resulted in the Treaty of Paris;
France tries to expand into the Ohio River Valley -
A tax on the American colonies by the British; taxed printed material
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British army soldiers shot and killed American colonists while under attack by a mob
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Samuel Adams and Sons of Liberty overthrew a shipment of tea in response to the Tea Act; results in the Intolerable Acts
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punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in an effort to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party (Massachusetts colonists threw a large shipment of tea into the Boston Harbor in reaction to being taxed by the British)
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The United States war of independence against the British
