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The French and British were fighting. The British got lots of land. The colonists were taxed to pay for the war.
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The Proclamation said no colonial settlement beyond the Appalachian Mountains. The colonists were angry about the Proclamation, and they settled in the west anyway.
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The Stamp Act required colonists to buy a government stamp on all of their legal and business papers. The Virginia House of Burgesses passed a resolution denying the Stamp Act. In Boston there were riots and they destroyed a stamp issuer's house. The Stamp Act united the colonies against the British Parliament. The act was repealed.
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The act made it so that colonists had to share quarters with the British troops.
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The Townshend Act made new taxes on the colonies. The colonists renewed their resistance to the new taxes and laws.
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The British had a fight with the colonists and they killed five colonists and injured ten.
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The Tea Act made it so the British East India Company was the only company who could ship tea without taxes. The colonial tea traders could not compete because they had to pay taxes.
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Some Bostonians dressed up as Mohawk Indians and snuck onto the British tea traders boats and opened the crates of tea and threw the tea overboard. They were protesting getting taxed on their tea.
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The First Continental Congress was a meeting of representatives from each colony in Philadelphia. They agreed to have a local boycott of British goods on Dec. 1, and made a petition to King George III listing their complaints.
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The Intolerable Acts put Massachusetts under British control. The British also made a British general a military governor of Massachusetts.
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The colonists and British troops fought at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts. This was the start of the War of Independence.