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French and Indian War
It was a large imperial war between Great Britian and France. They both wanted to extand each country's shere of inlfuence infrontier regions. Ended in 1763 with the Treaty of Paris. Known as the Seven Years' War. -
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French and Indian War
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Proclamation of 1763
Royal Proclamation of 1763 issued by King George III on October 7, 1763. following Great Britain's acquistion of french territory in North America after the French Indian War, which forbade all settlements past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. The proclamation provided all lands west of all rivers that flowed into the Atlantic Ocean from west or northwest were off-limits to the colonists. -
Stamp Ac t
An act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from American colonies by putting tax on every piece of paper printed they used. colonial opposition led to the act's repeat in 1766 and helped encourage the revolutionary moevement again the British Crown. -
Townshend Acts
Series of measures introduce into the English Parliament by Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshed in 1767, the townshend Acts imposed duties on glass , lead, paints, paper, and tea imported into colonies. Many Americans thought the taxation as an abuse of power, resulting in the passager of agreements to linits imports form Britian. Parliament repealed all hte Townshend duties except the tax on tea tempoary truce between the two sides in the time before the American Revolution. -
Boston Massacre
Street fight occurred on March 5, 1770 between a "patroit" mob and squad of British soldiers. Several coloniests were killed, this led to a campaign by speech writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry. Was a signal event leading to the Revolutionary war. Led directly to the Royal Governor evancuating the occupying army from the town of Boston. It would soon bring the revolution to armed rebellion throughout the colonies.
