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British colonial forces, led by Lieutenant Colonel George Washington, attempted to expel the French in 1754. -
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was very unpopular with the colonists. This was angered the colonists. -
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. -
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 Olive Branch Petition was a final attempt by the colonists to avoid going to war with Britain during the American Revolution.