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The French and Indian war was a war against the French and the British. They fought over control of land and power. -
This was a paper signed by the British after the French and Indian War. it was meant to satisfy the Indians needs by signing an enroachment of Europeans on their land. They were intruding and the Indians did not want them to come to their land and bother them. -
The British Parliament made a law called the Sugar Act. This consisted of imposed taxes and some commercial regulations on products that were being imported to the colonies. This set a higher tax wage on other things like non British products such as coffee, indigo and Madera Wine. -
This law imposed a higher tax wage and it was directly targeted towards the colonies and people of Great Britain. This law required that all printed stuff such as paper, newspapers etc. must be printed on the stamp paper.(Must be stamped) This also implied that it had to be paid in British money and not colonies currency. -
This was a series of measures that the British agreed to that would tax goods that were going to the American colonies. The American colonies, who did not have anything to do with the parliament saw this as an abuse of power and strength. -
The British were shooting and killing several people while in the mean time were being harassed and attacked in a British mob. The event was sought to by many people as heavily Publicized. -
The Idea of this act was to get the large amount of tea that was being held in the East Indian company. It was holding so much tea, but at the same time, it was being run down and they were running out of money. The British wanted to get that tea out so all of that doesn't go to waste. -
The "Tea Party" was the act of American political and mercantile colonists. It was a protest for freedom and liberty in Boston. They dumped chests of tea worth tons into the ocean to make a point that they wanted to be free. -
This act was meant to punish the colonists that offered a helping hand in the sabotage of all that tea(Boston tea party) It was meant to either kill them, put them in prison, or beat them. -
It was a meeting of delegates from 12 and 13 British colonies that once, after a while, became the United States.