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The French and Indian war
A war that lasted 9 years, the British and French were battling for control of North America. During the war, different Native Americans would help the different sides providing shelter, food, and medical help. -
The Proclamation of 1763
To avoid conflict with the Indians, who rebelled against the new British settlements, King George III issued the proclamation that banned settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. -
The Sugar Act
Great Britain had to pay taxes with no say in their colonies. They had Parliaments, which means that the government got to do whatever they wanted to the colonies. This upset the colonists because they had no say in what happened to them. "No taxation without representation" -
Stamp Act of 1766
The British Parliament passed the Stamp Act to get back their finances after the French and Indian war. This was also used to keep peace with the Native Americans and the Colonists. -
Townshend Acts of 1767
It was a bunch of laws, passed by the British Parliament, that taxed goods in the American colonies. But American colonists, saw the laws as a use of power -
The Boston Massacre
This paved the way for the American Revolution. It all started when a bloody and deadly fight broke out between American Colonists and a British Soldier who was encouraging anti-British sentiment. -
Tea Act
The act gave a financially struggling tea company the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies without first landing it in England. And gave employees of the company permission to sell tea in the colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
This was an American political protest by the Sons of Liberty. American colonists were angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation”. They poured 342 chests of tea into the harbor -
Intolerable Acts
These laws were meant to punish the colonists for their encouragement in the Boston Tea Party protest. This led to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary war. -
1st Continental Congress
Colonists discussed boycotting British supplies to establish the rights of Americans. it encouraged all colonists to stop using British goods and materials. The purpose was the show support for Boston and go against the British