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The French and Indian War was the North American theater of the global Seven Years' War, in which Great Britain and its colonists defeated France and its Native allies for control of North America. Triggered by disputes over the Ohio River Valley, the British victory, resulted in France losing nearly all its North American territory. -
"hands off approach by Great Britain; British policy of loosely enforcing laws and regulations in the American colonies, allowing them to govern themselves. -
A British law to raise revenue from American colonies after the Seven Years' War. -
The first direct British tax on American colonists, requiring a royal stamp on all legal documents, newspapers, playing cards, and pamphlets. -
Imposed import duties on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea to raise revenue for governing the American colonies, pay colonial officials' salaries, and strengthen enforcement. -
The Boston Massacre was a deadly confrontation on March 5, 1770, when British soldiers fired into a heckling colonial crowd in Boston, killing five colonists, including Crispus Attucks, and fueling revolutionary sentiment against British rule and taxation.