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The French and British fought each other over land and both were accompanied by Indian tribes.
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The Proclamation of 1763 was issued by king George III which banned any settlement to the west.
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The Sugar Act was when king George III raised taxes passed by the Parliament of Great Britain.
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The Stamp Act of 1766 is when the controversial forced the colonist to buy stamps to prove they have paid there taxes for each and every goods they have bought.
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The Townshend Acts or Townshend Duties are about the British acts of Parliament from 1767-1768.
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The Boston Massacre was a confrontation. The protesters, who called themselves Patriots, were protesting the occupation of their city by British troops.
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The principal objective was to reduce the large amount of tea held by the financially troubled Britain East India Company.
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The Boston Tea Party was a political protest. American colonists were frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing taxation without representation, they dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor
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The Intolerable Acts were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the actions of the Tea Party protest.
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Delegates from each of the 13 colonies except for Georgia, met in Philadelphia to organize resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts.
