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The French and Indian War
it was a small war inside a larger war between Great Britain and France -
The Proclamation of 1763
it was a British boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains -
The Sugar Act
it was when the British Parliament set a 3 pence tax on sugar -
stamp act of 1766
colonists had to pay for an official stamp or seal on purchase of paper items -
Townshend Acts of 1767
taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea -
The Boston Massacre
a crowd gathered in Boston after a British soldier struck a colonist -
Tea Act
parliament passed the tea tax in 1773 to allow the British east India company to sell cheap tea to the colonists -
Boston Tea Party
Colonists disguised as Indians attacked British tea ships and threw the tea overboard -
Intolerable Acts
this was to punish them for their "tea party" -
1st Continental congress
a meeting in Philadelphia of delegates from all colonies except Georgia