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French and Indian war
the French used small plaques to protect their turf, a plaque is a metal commonly wood wall type thing. The person who sparked the war was George Washington he struck the first blow. At first the French won. It was also a part of the first Global war. The reasons the Indians were involved with the French, is because the British were taking over their land and the wanted it to stop before it got out of hand. This war changed allot of the political stance between Great Britain and the American col -
The Proclamation of 1763
The proclamation of 1763 was issued by the British at the end of the French and Indian war to make peace with the Native Americans by checking the encroachment of European settlers on their lands. The result of this act was that great Britain got a hold of a piece of the French's land. But this prevented forbidden colonists from crossing the appalachian mountains. -
The Sugar Act
They also called it the plantation act or the revenue act in U.S. colonial history, British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies. the French and Indian War. Actually a reinvigoration of the largely ineffective Molasses Act of 1733, the Sugar Act provided for strong customs enforcement of the duties on refined sugar and molasses imported into the colonies from non-British Caribbean sources. -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British Parliament. The act, which imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies, came at a time when the British Empire was deep in debt from the Seven Years. Allot of them argued that only their own representative assemblies should be able to tax them, they also say that the act was unconstitutional, they resorted to mob violence to intimidate stamp collectors into resigning. -
Townshend acts of 1767
these 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. Compared to Great Britain’s debts, the cost of the French and Indian War to the colonists had been slight. The British thought that the colonists should have to help pay the cost of their protection. -
the Boston Massacre
Crispus Attucks was the very first one to die in this sad chain of events this terrible happening took place in Boston Massachusetts Crispus Attucks is widely considered to be the first American killed in the American Revolution. Just the name of this event is bone chilling, it sounds terrifying. The primary cause for the Boston Massacre was that patriots in Boston started throwing things such as rocks and sticks at British soldiers, which caused the soldiers to fire into the crowd -
Tea Act
the tea act was one of several measures imposed on the American colonists by the heavily indebted British government in the decade leading up to the American Revolutionary War. The act’s main purpose was not to raise revenue from the colonies but to bail out the floundering East India Company, a key actor in the British economy. The British government granted the company a monopoly on the importation and sale of tea in the colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
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. 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. -
intolerable acts
Intolerable Acts, also called Coercive Acts, in U.S. colonial history, four punitive measures enacted by the British Parliament in retaliation for acts of colonial defiance, together with the Quebec Act establishing a new administration for the territory ceded to Britain after the French and Indian War. The cumulative effect of the reports of colonial resistance to British rule during the winter of 1773–74 was to make Parliament more determined than ever to assert its authority in America. -
1st Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States. It met from September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after the British Navy instituted a blockade of Boston Harbor and Parliament passed the punitive Intolerable Acts in response to the December 1773 A plan was proposed to create a Union of Great Britain and the Colonies, but the delegates rejected it.