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French and Indian War
A war fought between the French and British with some Native American allies. This seven year war started when there was a conflict between the French and the British. When the French expanded their colonies two wards the Ohio river valley. -
Proclamation of 1763
It was issued October 7,1763 by King George lll following Great Britains acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of French and Indian war. -
Stamp Act
An act of the British parliament (1756) that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspaper and legal and comercial documents Mach 22. -
Townsend Act
A series of acts passed beginning in 1767, by the parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. -
Boston massacre
Was a small massacre that occurred on March 5,1770 between a "patriot" mob,throwing snowballs, stones and sticks. A squad of British soldiers several colonist were killed. -
Tea Act
The final straw in a 1773 series of unpopular policies and taxes impose by Britain on her American colonies. The policy ignited a "powder keg" of opposition and resentment among American colonies and was the Boston tea party. -
Boston Tea Party
Colonist dressed as natives and dumped the tea into the harbor. It started with the boycott of tea. -
Intolerable act
Parliament responded swiftly and angrily to the tea party with a string of legislation that came to be known as the intolerable act. It included the four acts of 1773.
