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French And Indian War
A war between the British and France over the Ohio River Valley. It lasted from 1754 to 1763. The Native Americans helped on both sides to make the conflict even greater. -
Proclamation Line 1763
Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Sugar Act
A law passed by the British Parliament in 1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market. -
Stamp Act
Act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. Colonial opposition led to the act's repeal in 1766 and helped encourage the revolutionary movement against the Crown -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend acts were similar to the repeals stamp act had but only taxed imported good that were not directly produced in colonies. -
Boston Massacre
A riot in Boston arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed several people. -
Committees of Correspondence
In 1772 colonist attacked Brtitsh with a snowball. -
Boston Tea Party
A raid on three British ships in Boston Harbor in which Boston colonists, disguised as Indians, threw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against British taxes on tea and against the monopoly granted the East India Company. -
Intolerable Acts
A series of British measures passed in 1774 and designed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party. -
Lexington and Concord
The kickoff of the Revolutionary War. British had been slowly upsetting the 13 colonies and they were tired of the ridiculous laws. Britain marched close to Concord and Paul Revere sounded the alarm.