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French and Indian war
This was a war of those of British America against those of New France. Each side allied with American Indian allies. At the start of the war, the French colonies had a population of roughly 60,000 settlers, compared with 2 million in the British colonies. The outnumbered French particularly depended on the Indians. -
proclamation of 1763
a law issued by the British at the end of the french and Indian war to prevent more fighting. It created a boundary, known as the proclamation line, separating the British colonies on the Atlantic coast from American Indian lands west of the Appalachian Mountains. -
sugar act
The British needed money after the french and Indian war to pay the solders, so they imposed a tax of six pence per gallon on imports of molasses and sugar from non-English colonies. -
stamp act of 1765
This was another tax imposed on the colonists by the British. This time though, the colonists had to pay a tax on every paper product that they bought, including the stamps that where used to prove that they payed it. -
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Townshend acts
a series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies.The effects of this caused new taxes, as well as took away some of the freedoms from the colonists. The taxes where placed on paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea. -
Boston Massacre
Colonists pelted a British solder with snow, sticks, stones and other things after he hit a colonist. Some other solders came to his aid and eventually opened fire on the crowd, killing 5 colonists. The story ended up being blown out of proportion and made to sound worse to make the British sound worse then they already did. -
tea act
Parliament Passed this law to allow the British to ship their tea directly to the colonies, and for a cheaper price. This law hurt the east India Company, who allowed colonists to skip paying the tax on tea to the British. -
Boston Tea Party
a group of colonists known as the sons of liberty dressed up as Indians and threw tea over the side of a British ship that was carrying it. The tea was ruined as it landed in the Boston harbor, causing the British to lose the money that they could have gained from the tea. -
Intolerable acts
several laws put into effect after the Boston tea party, used as punishment for the Massachusetts colonists. The Massachusetts charter was canceled, the Boston harbor was closed, The Governor of Massachusetts was replaced with a British general, And colonists where forced to allow British solders into their homes if they wanted to come in. -
1st Congressional Congress
a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States.During the opening weeks of the Congress, the delegates conducted a spirited discussion about how the colonies could collectively respond to the British government's coercive actions. They then sent the