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The French and Indian war
The French and Indian war was a war between Great Britain and France. They fought over whether the upper Ohio river valley was apart of the British empire. It was apart of the Seven years' war, and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. -
The Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation Line was a British assembled boundary in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide. It was made to satisfy Native Americans by checking the legal rights of the European settlers on the land. -
The Sugar Act
The Sugar Act was created to stop trade of sugar and molasses from French. This was to to fund enlarged British Empire authorities after the French and Indian war. -
Stamp Act of 1766
The Stamp act was made to help pay for British troops stationed in the colonies during the Seven Years' War. This required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp. -
Townshend Acts of 1767
The Townshend Acts were a series of actions passed by the British Parliament that taxed goods sent to the American colonies. But the American colonists saw the acts as an abusive power -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot on Kings street in Boston. It started as a street brawl between American colonists, and one British soldier. It quickly escalated to a chaotic body slaughter. It happened because colonists opposed to the series of acts the British parliament had passed. -
The tea act
The Tea Act was an act that was made for the company to have the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies without first landing it in England and to commission agents who would have the right to sell the tea to the colonists. It had lowered the tea tax the company had to pay to the British government. It saved the company from bankruptcy. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that happened at Griffin's Wharf in Boston. The colonists were upset with the British government for " Taxation without representation," from the Tea Act. They dumped 342 chests of tea imported from the British East India Company. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were laws passed by the British Parliament after the tea party. They were made to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their resistance against the Tea Party -
1st Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of representatives from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States.
