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proclamation
Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III for Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian Seven Years War, which oppose all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
sugar act
Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act in 1733, which was going to expire. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon. -
stamp act
The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British government. -
repeal of stamp act
the British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act, a taxation measure enacted to raise revenues for a standing British army in America. -
Boston massacre
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770 -
the Boston tea party
A group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships and dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor -
intolerable acts
was harsh laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774. They were meant to punish the American colonists for the Boston Tea Party and others
