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French and Indian war
Also know as the 7 year war.This war cause most of the acts that they placed on Americans for the money they losted.The Americans where mad that these acts were on them -
Proclamation of 1763
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The Sugar act
This act taxed sugar, certain wines, coffee, pimiento, cambric and printed calico.This caused the colnist to find way around this act and smuggled in the sugar to invoid tax . -
Currency act
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Stamp Act
This act was a tax on paper goods includeing newspapers and stamps.The colnists wernt happy that they were being taxed for the debt for The french and Indan war. This caused people to smugle and make there own fake stamps -
Quartering Act
40,000 soldiers from Britan were sent to the colonies to collect taxes nd The Quartering act made colonists let some soliders sleep in thier houses this made the colnists mad that they had to let them stay in thier homes and give them the taxes they owed. -
The Declaratory Act
It gave Parliament rule over the colnies. It came with the repel of the Stamp Act becuse the colineist boycottening them brought britsh ecomey to a stand still. The conlinies did not like them haveing control over them . -
Boston Massacre
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The Gaspee Affair
A ship named the Gaspee was led aground.Josh Brown and 55 other men then captured the crew and caption then looted and burned the Gaspee.This lead to more ship on partrol on the coast. -
Tea Act
It was to help a tea company in deep need. They made the conlinist buy there tea and no one else and this made the conlisnist made that they had to buy only that tea.This would later cause the Boston Tea Party . -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was when the colinist dressed up as indains and dumped overbored lots and lots of tea and this would cause damge to the briatish ecomey and this would cause Britian to make the Boston port acts and most of the The Intolerable Acts -
Boston Port act
This act closed the ports of Boston stoping trade in Boston this made a lot of people poor and hungrey. -
First Continental Congress
This was the first time all of the conlies expect Georgia sent some one to meet toghther and talk about the King and Parliament.They argreed that Britan needs to understand them and let them have a vocie in parliament -
Lexington and Concord
This was the shot heared around the world.This also was the start of the war