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The French and Indian War comprised the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War of 1756-1763
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In 1763, at the end of the French and Indian War, the British issued a proclamation,mainly intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands.
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an act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents.
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The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed – beginning in 1767 – by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America.
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Shots fired by British soldiers in the streets of Boston in 1770 would spark the American Revolution. The Boston Massacre occurred on March 5, 1770.
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Tea Act of 1773 (13 Geo 3 c 44) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain.
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The Sons of Liberty and the Boston Tea Party. Seeking to boost the troubled East India Company, British Parliament adjusted import duties with the passage of the Tea Act in 1773.
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The Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party.
