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French and Indian War
Britain and France were having little battles because France expanded to the Ohio Valley River. These battles kept happening until 1776 when Britain declared war on France. This war last until 1763 when Britain won the war and claim territory from France and Spain which was Canada and Florida. -
Proclamation of 1763
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's 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. -
Sugar Act
Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act (1733), which was about to expire. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses. -
Stamp Act
This was the first internal tax directly on the American colonists by the British government. The Stamp act came during the time when Britain was deep in debt from the French and Indian war -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Acts were a series of British acts passed beginning in 1767 and relating to the British American colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program. -
Boston Massacre
A squad of British soldiers marched into Boston to take care of a heckling crowd. The British soldiers fired their weapons and killed 5 people of the crowd -
Boston Tea Party
American colonies protested again taxation. Samuel Adams and the Son of Liberty loaded three ships in the Boston harbor. They threw 342 crates of tea overboard -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts (also called the Coercive Acts) were harsh laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774. They were meant to punish the American colonists for the Boston Tea Party and other protests. -
Lexington and Concord
Lexington and Concord was a battle that kicked off the American Revolutionary War. The 13 colonies and the British tensions were building until April 18, 1775, when hundreds of British soldiers marched into Boston near Concord to seize an arms cache
