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The French and Indian War started near the Ohio River. The French and British were fighting for land. The British wanted to expand west and the French wanted to expand South. They would eventually collide it was a matter of time. -
The Proclamation was a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide. It was to keep collision from the 2 countries away from each other. -
The Sugar Act was a act that taxed anything that was or made of sugar. This was unfair because the colonists used sugar a lot. -
The Stamp Act was an act that taxed everything that was made of paper. The stamps were also made of paper making the tax even worse. -
The Townshend Act was a series of acts like the quartering act where the colonists had to house the British and there were other acts too. -
The Boston Massacre is a battle like thing. The colonists were taunting and throwing snowballs. This made the British attack and then the colonists called it a Massacre -
The tea act was a act the taxed all tea. This made the colonists mad because they were British and they loved their tea. -
The Boston Tea Party is what they call for a act the colonists did on all of the tea. The colonists dressed up as Indians got on ships and threw the tea into the Boston Bay. -
The Intolerable Acts were a series of 4 acts. They were the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act. -
The delegates of all of the 13 colonies except for Georgia met in Philadelphia. They were there to figure out a new better government.