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The French and Indian War
Great Britain and France both wanted control of the Americas so they fought to gain control. Both sides had the backing of different Native American tribes -
The Proclamation of 1763
It was a boundary to divide the land in the Americans. It prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling on lands acquired from the French after the French and Indian War. -
The Sugar Act
The British law charged taxes on the sugar that was imported into the colonies colonists cried out against taxation, and suggested a united protest throughout the colonies. -
The stamp act of 1766
The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first tax on American colonists by the British Parliament, because of this the Colonist refused to pay taxes. They also started boycotts of British goods to riots and attacks on the tax collectors. -
The Townshend Act
A series of acts that the British Parliament passed that taxed all of the colonies -
The Boston Massacre
A deadly riot, It began as a street brawl between American colonists and a British soldier, but quickly escalated to a bloody slaughter. -
The Tea Act
It was to raise revenue from the colonies but to try and save the failing East India Company, a key factor in the British economy. -
The Boston Tea Party
The British Started taxing all the tea in the colonies, so the colonist retaliated by dumping 342 chests of tea into the harbor at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were a series of laws passed by the British Parliament. It was to make an example of the colonies after the Boston Tea Party, It became the major push that led to the outbreak American Revolution in 1775 -
1st Continental Congress
Representatives of the states discussed boycotting British goods to establish the rights of Americans at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
