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French & Indian war
Also known as seven years of war,this new world conflict marked another chapter in the long imperial struggle between Britain and France. When France's expansion into the Ohio River valley brought repeated conflict with the claims of the British colonies, a series of battles led to the official British declaration of war in 1756. Boosted by the financing of future prime minister William Pitt, the British turned the tied with victories at louisbourg. -
Proclamation of 1763
By king George ||| following great britains acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian war/seven years'war which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian mountains. The proclamation also established four new colonies. Proclamation line extended from the Atlantic coast at Quebec to the Newley established border of west Florida. -
Sugar act
Under the molasses act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses. But because of corruption they mostly evaded the taxes and undercut the intention of the tax. This hurt the British West Indies market in molasses and sugar and the market for rum, which the colonies had been producing in quantity with the cheaper French molasses. -
Stamp act
The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. The money collected by the stamp act was collected to be used to help pay the costs of defending and protecting the American frontier near Appalachian mountains. The actual cost of the stamp act was relatively small. -
Townshend act
Townshend acts imposed duties on glass,leads,paints,paper and tea imported into the colonies. Townshend hoped the acts would defray imperial expenses in the colonies,but many Americans thought it as abuse of power. In 1770 parliament repealed all the townshend duties except the tax on tea, leading to a temporary truce between the two sides in the years before the American Revolution. -
Boston massacre
A street fight between a patriot mob,throwing snowballs ,stones,and sticks and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of citizenry. The presence of the British troops in the city of Boston were increasingly unwelcomed. -
Tea Act
Would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. The act was not intended to raise revenue in American colonies,and in fact imposed no new taxes. It was designed to prop the east India company which was floundering financially and burdened with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea. The tea was to be shipped directly to colonies and sold at bargain price. -
Boston tea party
This famed act of American colonial defiance served as a protest against taxation. Seeking to boost the troubled East India Company, British Parliament adjusted import duties with the passage of the Tea Act in 1773. While consignees in Charleston, New York, and Philadelphia rejected tea shipments, merchants in Boston refused to concede to Patriot pressure. On the night of December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea -
Intolerable acts
Parliament was utterly fed up with colonial antics. The British could tolerate strongly worded letters or trade boycotts. They could put up with defiant legislatures and harassed customs officials to an extent. -
Declaration of Independence
Congress that declared the thirteen colonies "free and independent states." Congress did not act on the resolution immediately. A vote was set for early July.
