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The French and Indian War was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes.
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The Stamp Act was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America -
The Townshend Acts were a series of British acts of Parliament passed during 1767 and 1768 introducing a series of taxes and regulations to fund administration of the British colonies in America. -
The Boston Massacre was a confrontation in Boston in which nine British soldiers shot several of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles. -
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts. -
The Intolerable Acts were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.