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french and indian war-The French and Inidan War was the last and the most important of four North America wars. Territorial rivalries between Brtain and France had become stronger as the two countries settlements expanded. The war began in the struggle of control of the Ohio Valley.
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This act required British colonists, against their will, to house and feed British militiamen and army members.
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delegates from nine colonies were the members of the congress and their responsibility was to draft a set of formal petitions stating why Parliament had no right to tax them
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The Stamp Act was a law introduced by the British prime minister George Greenville. The purpose of the Stamp Act was to pay for some of the costs ofo the French and Indian War. This was to be the direct tax on the American colonies.
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The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed, beginning in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the programme.
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This was the result of tensions between British officers and and protesters. The british officers shot and killed five male civilians. This was known as " The Shot Heard Round The World"
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Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. Its principal over objective was to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive
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The colonist were very angry about the taxes in the colonies. A group of colonist called The Sons of Liberty threatened the tax collectors that something bad was going to happen. A ship carrying British tea was taken over and the tea was dumped into the harbor.
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Made the King angry because he was losing more control of the colony
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The Intolerable Acts was the American Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor.
