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French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was caused over disputed land, particularly the Ohio River Valley that was rich in resources. -
Proclamation of 1763
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. -
Sugar Act
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. -
Stamp Act
This British policy required colonists to purchase stamps for all official paper publications, including letters, newspapers and magazines. -
Boston Massacre
The colonists did not want to give the British a reason for more violence, and so preparations were made to ensure a fair trial for the British soldiers -
Tea Act
The Tea Act 1773 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company -
Boston Tea Part
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773. The target was the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, which allowed the British East India Company to sell tea from China in American colonies without paying taxes apart from those imposed by the Townshend -
Intolerable Act
measures meant to punish the port of Boston and the people of Massachusetts for the Boston Tea party. Parliament, now under the leadership of Lord North, passed the first of these measures, the Boston Port Act, in March 1774. This act provided that the port of Boston -
Olive Branch Petition
The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 5, 1775, and signed on July 8 in a final attempt to avoid war between Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies in America -
Battle of Lexington
The battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775 in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge