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The French And Indian war was fought by the French and the English over The Ohio River the English won the war but they went into debt so they started taxing the colonies which made the colonists angry that they had no representation about taxes in parliament. -
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The Proclamation of 1763 Is an act that stopped the colonists from expanding from the Appalachian mountains so the English could establish good relations with the Native Americans the colonists where angry because the English didn't let them use the land that England got from the war. -
The Stamp act made colonists buy stamps for every kind of paper product. To help with the debt of the French and Indian war;. -
The Sugar act was an act on sugar passed by parliament. the colonists where angry because all sugar products got taxed, which led to the colonists getting angry and starting to smuggle sugar products. -
British Soldiers where hit with snowballs sticks and rocks and being insulted by the colonists the British Soldiers got angry and shot their muskets at the colonists and killed 5 people. -
The Tea act was an act that made it so that colonists could only buy from only one company the one owned by the king the colonists got angry because the colonists wanted to buy tea they liked from other companies. -
The Boston Tea Party was in retaliation against the tea act the Boston tea party was planned by the sons of liberty and they threw 18000 dollars worth of tea so the king was extremely angry so he closed the Boston port. -
The intolerable acts where made as a punishment to the colonists because of the Boston Tea Party some of the acts included where the quartering act which made it so colonists had to house British soldiers. The Boston Port act which made it so the colonists couldn't leave through the Boston harbor which was used for resources meaning that most colonists starved and also made it so there was less colonial meetings. -
The Battle of Lexington and Concord was the first battle of the American Revolution and while the colonists suffered many deaths the colonists ended up wining. -
The olive branch petition was a petition signed in the second continental congress the petition was signed so that the British and the colonists could stop the war and was sent to the king. The King declined the petition so the war went on.