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Treaty Of Paris
Treaty of Paris was a treaty signed by the kingdoms at the time that ended the Seven Years War that included the French and the British. By the war ending the british had earned Quebec and the Ohio River. The war had left the British in debt which had made the British force tax on the colonies -
Pontiac's Rebellion
This is a rebellion by Cheif Pontiac and the Ottawans, they attacked Fort Detriot in May, They raided English settlers in Ohio. By late fall the Native Americans had taken prisoners and killed more then 600 people. Pontiac did not officially surrender until July 1766. -
Proclamtion of 1763
French lost all of there territory in North America British colonies won Ohio River Valley and Quebec. This also left the colonists in war debt. The line did not allow settlers to past a line that was drawn along the mo -
Sugar Act
It was an updated version Sugar and Molasses Act from 1773 which was about to expire. This new act increased taxes on imported goods like sugar and wine, while lowering taxes on Molasses. This ended in a boycott or the British goods. -
Stamp Act
It was passed by the British in March, the new tax was on all colonists, forcing them to pay a tax on any printed paper that was used. -
The Declaratory Act
Was also known as the American Colonies Act, was a law passed by the british parliment which was apert of the repeak of the Stamp act in 1965.The British had repealed the Stamp act because the colonist were boycotting. The colonies did not listen to the Parliments laws on the American colonies. -
Boston Massacre
It was a street fight between a group of colonists and British soldiers. Colonists began throwing rocks, snow balls, sticks at the soldiers. Then they began to taunt the soldiers and threaten them as they had clubs in their hands. They began striking the muskets of soldiers and then the soldiers began to shoot and killed 5 colonists -
The Tea Act
The tea act was a law passed by the british trying to get back conrtol of the tea trade in the colonies. They put tax on tea that was exported from britain. Many colonist smugled tea and boycotted it from the dutch. This act tried persuade the colonist to by British tea. -
The Boston Tea Party
Boston Tea party wan a protest that was started by the Sons Of Liberty in Boston. Because of the tax on tea, after the British did not retreat ships that had tea on them a group of men got on the ship and started to throw tea into the Boston harbor. They thought putting tax on things was a violation of their rights, they called it taxation without representaion. -
Intolerable acts
Was an act that allowed the British to put any law down and the colonies had to follow it and couldn't do any thing about it. This was an amount of acts passed by parlimant that soon led up to the Revolutionary war. -
American Revolutionary War
This was a war between the British and the American colonies. This war happened because of the laws and acts that the British put on the colonies. The British troops were called in to detroy some weapons that the colonist had and on there way there colonist had met the resluting in eight of the dying after that the war on. On April 11, 1783 the congress had declares to end the war, giving the colonist freedom