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French and Indan War(costs)
The British won the French and Indian War along with lots of debt. The cost of the war and caused a lot of tension between the colonies and the mother country. -
Sugar Act
This was the first law passed raising the tax revenue on the colonists. The colonies protested, which led to the lower of the cost. -
Stamp Act
These acts were proposed because of the French and Indian War debt that was made from supplying the colonists with defense. The Stamp Act was a tax on stamps that were now required on lots of different documentations. -
Townshend Act
It enforced a tax on glass, white lead, paper, paint, and tea. The tax on tea was the most offensive to the colonists because almost everyone drank tea. The Townshend act was later repealed, but Parliament kept the tax on tea just to show who was boss. -
Boston Massacre
The people of Boston started taunting the British officials. The British started firing, killing/wounding eleven people. -
Boston Tea Party
The colonists followed the tea tax laws. Then one day the people in Boston dressed as Indians and smashed and threw the tea chests into the ocean. -
Boston Port Act
This act closed down the Boston harbor until the damages were paid. This was Parliaments way of reacting and punishing people from the Boston Tea Party -
Quebec Act
This allowed the French Canadians to resume customs and let their religion be Catholicism. It did not give them trial by jury or a representative assembly. -
The Association
It was a boycott of British goods. They did not import, export or consume those goods. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
This was were the first shot as fired, igniting the Revolutionary War.
