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The Navigation Acts were passed to promote the self-sufficiency of the British Empire by restricting colonial trade to England. -
The British and French went to war over control of the upper Ohio River valley. -
The Writs of Assistance were documents allowing British officials to enter any ship or building that was suspected of holding smuggled goods. -
The British and French went to war over control of the upper Ohio River valley. -
Pontiac's Rebellion was an armed conflict between the British and many different Native American tribes. -
The Proclamation of 1763 was a boundary imposed by the British that restricted colonial settlers from going beyond the Appalachian Mountains. This was in response to Pontiac's Rebellion and to appease the Native Americans living there at the time. -
The Sugar Act was aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses and to provide increased revenue to the British. -
The Stamp Act Crisis was a series of organized protests against the Stamp Act before it went into effect. -
The Quartering Act stated that the British would house their soldiers in American barracks and public housing, as well as making colonial governments providing paying for feeding and sheltering any troops stationed in their colony. -
The Stamp Act required colonists to pay a tax on many forms of papers and documents signified by a stamp on the paper or document. -
Pontiac's Rebellion was an armed conflict between the British and many different Native American tribes. -
The declaratory act was a declaration that stated the Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Britain. -
The Townshend Acts were a series of measures that taxed goods imported to the 13 colonies. -
A fight that occurred on the streets of Boston. Five citizens were shot. -
A tax which forced Americans to import tea from Britain (Britain wanted to show superiority) -
Angry colonists dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor. “taxation without representation” -
Laws passed by parliament to punish colonists for their actions. The Massachusetts colonists were restricted from doing many things. -
A government body through which the colonists coordinated defiance against the British. -
Battles between British militia, and poorly trained American colonists beginning the Revolutionary war.