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The Proclamationwas issued by King George the III at the end of the French and Indian War that prohibited settlement by whites on Indian territory.
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The Sugar Act was a law passed by the British Parliament raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market.
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The Stamp Act was a law taxation in the british colonies in north america. It was the fourth Stamp Act to be passed by the British Parliament and required all legal documents and papers in the American colonies to carry a tax stamp. It was never fully enforced.
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A Secret organization of American colonists formed initially to protest the Stamp Act. The idea found success in many colonies, after the initial organizations in Boston and New York. Groups of men, such as the ones who dumped the tea into Boston Harbor, were called sons of liberty.
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The Boston Massacre was a clash between Bristish troops and the citizens. It was a signal event leading to the Revolutionary War.
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Angry and frustrated at a new tax on tea, American colonists calling themselves the Sons of Liberty and disguised as Mohawk Native Americans boarded ships and dumped whole crates of British tea into Boston harbor.
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Battle of Lexington was the first battle marking the beginning of the Revolutionary War. It started in Lexington, Massachusetts,
also Known As "the shot heard around the world.
