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the turning point in my opinion is the french and Indian war because that's when Britain decided it was best to just punish the colonists with a whole bunch of things they had to do
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The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain with enormous territorial gains in North America. -
This was an attempt by the British government to restrict the American colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains in an attempt to ease tensions between the colonists and the Native Americans -
This was the first effort by the British to control economic activity in the American colonies by limiting what sugar products could buy and sell. -
Colonists were required to pay for the housing of British soldiers. -
This British policy required colonists to purchase stamps for all official paper publications, including letters, newspapers, and magazines. -
This British policy imposed taxes that colonists had to pay on tea, glass, lead, paper, and paint products. -
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers -
This British act required that colonists were only allowed to purchase tea from the British-owned East India Trading Company which directly impacted the colonial merchants -
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. -
This series of actions by the British government was in direct response to the Boston Tea Party. The purpose was to punish the colonist. The acts closed the Boston Harbor and limited colonial town meetings -
This was part of the Intolerable Acts as a response to the Boston Tea Party. This act was similar to the Quartering Act of 1765 which required colonists to pay for the housing of British soldiers. -
The battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.The Olive Branch Petition was a final attempt by the colonists to avoid going to war with Britain during the American Revolution -
The Olive Branch Petition was a final attempt by the colonists to avoid going to war with Britain during the American Revolution