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The French and Indian war
The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain very big territorial gains in North America, but disputes over the frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution. -
The Proclamation of 1763
Proclamation Line of 1763 was a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains. October 7, 1763 -
Stamp Act of 1766
repealed on 18 March 1766 as a matter of expedience, but Parliament affirmed its power to legislate for the colonies. -
Townshend Acts of 1767
a series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. -
The Sugar Act
also called Plantation Act or Revenue Act. British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. -
Tea Act
in an effort to save the troubled enterprise, the British Parliament passed the Tea Act in 1773. The act granted the company the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies without first landing it in England -
Boston Tea Party
Why the Boston Tea Party was important?
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The Boston Tea Party was a raid that took place in the Boston Harbor in 1773, during which American colonists dumped shiploads of tea into the water to protest a British tax on tea. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts (passed/Royal assent March 31–June 22, 1774) were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. -
1st Continental Congress
in Philadelphia as the First Continental Congress to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts.