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the french and Indian war started 5/18/1756 and ended in 1763 it was between New France and the British colonies, from the Province of Virginia in the south to Newfoundland in the north. At the start of the war, the French colonies had a population of roughly 60,000 settlers, compared with 2 million in the British colonies.1,512 killed in action 1,500 died of wounds 10,400 died of disease. In spite of the war's moniker, not all Native Americans sided with the French.
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The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued by King George III on October 7, 1763, following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the Seven Years' War. It forbade all settlement west of a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains, which was delineated as an Indian Reserve.
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The Sugar Act reduced the rate of tax on molasses from six pence to three pence per gallon, while Grenville took measures that the duty is strictly enforced. ... The enforced tax on molasses caused an almost immediate decline in the rum industry in the colonies.
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The stamp act as an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp. The Stamp Act was very unpopular among colonists. They would not take colonial paper money. John Adams, future president of the United States, wrote a series of resolutions protesting the tax.
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The Townshend Acts were a series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. But American colonists, who had no representation in Parliament, saw the Acts as an abuse of power.
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The Boston Massacre was a confrontation on March 5, 1770, in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. The event was heavily publicized by leading Patriots such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams. One of the Victims Later Became an Anti-Slavery Icon. Half of Boston's Population Attended the Victims' Funerals.
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was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. A related objective was to undercut the price of illegal tea, smuggled into Britain's North American colonies.
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The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.
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The Intolerable Acts were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British Government.
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The First Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, from September 5 to October 26, 1774. Carpenter's Hall was also the seat of the Pennsylvania Congress. All of the colonies except Georgia sent delegates.