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French and Britain fighting over Ohio River Valley -
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. -
This British policy required colonists to purchase stamps for all official paper publications, including letters, newspapers and magazines. -
Colonists were required to pay for the housing of the British Soldiers. -
The British policy imposed taxes that colonists had to pay on tea, glass, lead, paper and paint products. -
The Boston Massacre was a signal event leading to the Revolutionary War. It led directly to the Royal Governor evacuating the occupying army from the town of Boston. It would soon bring the revolution to armed rebellion throughout the colonies. -
The British Act required that colonists were allowed to purchase tea from the British owned East India Trading Company which directly impacted the colonial merchants. -
This Act required colonists to pay for the housing of British Soldiers, similar to the Quarter Act. -
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 -
The Olive Branch Petition was a final attempt by the colonists to avoid going to war with Britain during the American Revolution