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The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763.Engalnd won the war and the king went in to deep debt. -
The Proclamation Line of 1763 was a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide. So no-one could mess with the Indians. -
To take effect on September 29 the new Sugar Act cut the duty on foreign molasses from 6 to 3 pence per gallon retained a high duty on foreign refined sugar and prohibited the importation of all foreign rum. -
The British Parliament passed the "Stamp Act" to help pay for British troops stationed in the colonies during the Seven Years War. The act required the colonists to pay a tax represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards. -
The Boston Massacre was a confrontation on March 5, 1770, in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston in the streets of Boston. -
The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive -
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts on December 16, 1773. The goal of this act is to protest British Parliament's tax on tea No taxation without representation. -
The Intolerable Act 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