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French and Indian war
They fought to decide if Britain or France would get North America. The British won the war. -
The Proclamation of 1763
After the French and Indian war the British made it so that the American colonists could not settle west of Appalachia. -
The Sugar Act
The British wanted to stop the smuggling of sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch. -
Stamp Act of 1766
Legal documents and printed materials must bear a tax stamp provided my commissioned distributors who would collect the tax in exchange for the stamp. -
Townshend Acts of 1767
The British sent troops to America to enforce the laws. Most colonists thought they where abuse of power and didn't like the laws. -
The Boston massacre
There was a riot that started to be a fight between American colonists and became a deadly battle. -
Tea Act
The Parliament of Britain took away a lot of tea. -
Boston Tea Party
It was a protest lead by the American colonists they were mad at Britain for imposing taxation without representation and so they dumped 342 chests of tea imported by the British it into the ocean. -
Intolerable Acts
Laws passed by the British Parliament after the Boston tea party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston tea party. -
1st Continental Congress
13 Colonies met in Philadelphia as the first Continental Congress to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts.
