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1765 BCE
Stamp Act of 1766
British Parliament passed the Stamp Act to help bring back the money they lost after the costly Seven Years' War with France.
they also made this act to maintain several regiments of British soldiers in North America to maintain peace between Native Americans and the colonists. -
The French and Indian war
The French and Indian war began in 1754 and ended with the treaty of Paris in 1763. It disputes over paying the war's expenses which led to the American Revolution. -
The Proclamation of 1763
Decreed on October 7, 1763, the Proclamation Line prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling on land acquired from the French following the French and Indian War. The reason this angered the colonists was because they thought it was a plot to keep them under the strict control of England. -
The Sugar Act
The new Sugar Act cut the foreign molasses from 6 to 3 pence per gallon, retained a high foreign refined sugar, and prohibited the importation of all foreign rum. -
Townshend Acts of 1767
The Townshend Acts, passed in 1767 and 1768, were designed to raise money for the British Empire by taxing its North American colonies. but they were meant with widespread protest in the colonies, especially among merchants in Boston. -
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. Several colonists were killed and this led to a big gun fight. -
Tea Act
The British Parliament passes the Tea Act, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company from bankruptcy by greatly lowering the tea tax it paid to the British government and, thus, making it hard for the American tea trade. -
Boston Tea Party
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
Were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British Government. -
1st Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress discussed boycotting British goods to establish the rights of Americans and planned for a Second Continental Congress.
