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This war gave Great Britain territorial gains in North America. Paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and to the American Revolution. -
British-produced boundary in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide. Prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling on lands, follows the French and Indian War. -
British legislation wanted to end the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies. Increasing revenues to fund, enlarged British Empire responsibilities -
Helped replenish their finances after the costly Seven Years of War with France. Part of the Stamp Act would be used to maintain several regiments of British soldiers in North America, maintaining peace between Native Americans and the colonists. -
A series of measures, passed by the British Parliament that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. American colonists, who had no representation, saw the Acts as an abuse of power. -
Patriot mob attacked a British loyalist, in the ensuing days brawls between colonists and British soldiers eventually led to the Boston Massacre. -
The act shipped its tea directly to the colonies without first landing it in England. Commission agents who had the sole right to sell tea in the colonies. -
A political protest where American colonists were frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” They then dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. -
Punitive laws passed by the British Parliament, the laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their disobedience in the Tea Party protest, changing taxation by the British Government. -
Delegates discussed boycotting British goods to gain the rights of Americans and they did plan for a Second Continental Congress.