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French & Indian War
The French and Indian War was fought between France and Great Britain to determine control of the vast colonial territory of North America. -
Proclamation of 1763
This act was an attempt by the British government to restrict the American colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains in an attempt to ease tensions between the colonists and the Native Americans. This act ended the French & Indian war. -
Sugar Act
This was the first effort by the British to control economic activity in the American colonies by limiting what sugar products could buy and sell. -
Stamp Act
This British policy required colonists to purchase stamps for all official paper publications, including letters, newspapers and magazines. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a patriot mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. In the Boston massacre there were 5 casualties. -
Tea Act
This British act required that colonists were only allowed to purchase tea from the British-owned East India Trading Company which directly impacted the colonial merchants. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists were frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” and dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
This series of actions by the British government was in direct response to the Boston Tea Party. The purpose was to punish the colonist. The acts closed the Boston Harbor and limited colonial town meetings. -
Turning Point
This event affected the outcome because the Intolerable Acts were a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in the mid-1770s to punish the colonists. Many colonists saw the Intolerable Acts as a violation of their constitutional rights, their natural rights, and their colonial charters. Therefore, Parliament's intolerable policies sowed the seeds of American rebellion and led to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War. -
Battles of Lexington & Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, the famous 'shot heard 'round the world', marked the start of the American War of Independence. -
Olive Branch Petition
The Olive Branch Petition was a final attempt by the colonists to avoid going to war with Britain during the American Revolution.