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This event was a British imposition, the treaty ended the French and Indian War. This concluded the threat of France in North America for the British.
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The Proclamation Act was a British imposition where they defined the boundaries of where people could settle in the thirteen colonies.
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The Sugar Act was a British imposition where Great Britain unfairly taxed the colonies on sugar and molasses.
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The Stamp Act was a British imposition where Great Britain taxed the colonies on every piece of paper they printed.
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The Quartering Act was a British imposition on the colonies where they required the colonies to provide room and board for British soldiers in the colonies.
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The Stamp Act Congress was the American Colonies' first congress. This was a response from the colonies on the new British taxation.
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Repealing the Stamp Act was the agreement the Colonies and Great Britain came to after the Stamp Act was passed.
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The Declaratory Act was a British imposition that stated Britain and the colonies were taxed the same, so the British Parliament could pass laws that extended to the colonies.
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The Townshend Act was a British imposition for Britain to have authority over the colonies. The colonies were taxed without representation.
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The Boston Massacre was a British attempt to enforce the Townshend Acts.
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The Committee of Correspondence was a colonial response to the British policy. The Committee of Correspondence created a political union among the thirteen colonies.
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The Tea Act was a British imposition that gave Great Britain a monopoly over tea sales in the colonies.
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The Boston Tea Party was a colonial response to the British tax on tea where they dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston harbor.
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The Intolerable Acts were a British imposition in response to the Boston Tea Party.
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The First Continental Congress was the Colonial response to the enactment Intolerable Acts. Fifty-six delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies met and created a declaration of rights and grievances.
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The Declaration of Rights and Grievances was a document in response, from the colonies, to the unfair taxation Britain imposed on the colonies, which they declared "unconstitutional."
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military arrangement of the Revolutionary War.
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The Battle of Bunker Hill was a response from the colonies when they found out that Britain was sending troops to occupy the hills around Boston, so Colonel William Prescott lead the colonial militiamen into battle.
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The Olive Branch Petition was a final response from the colonies in an attempt to avoid war over independence with Great Britain.
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Common Sense was a book written by Thomas Paine (a colonial response) where he fought against Great Britain for the colonies to have independence.
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The Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Second Continental Congress which was a response from the thirteen colonies declaring they were independent.
