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French and Indian War
Also known as the Seven Year' War, the conflict marked another chapter in this long imperial struggle between Britain and France. When France's expansion into the Ohio River valley brought repeated conflicts with the claims of British colonies, a series of battles led the official war in 1756. The British were financed by Orime minister William Pitt, and won Louisbourg. -
Proclamation of 1763
This was created after the French and Indian War. It forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appachie Mountains. This royal proclamation was created by King George the third. -
Sugar Act
This act put a three-cent tax on forgein refined sugar and increase taxes on coffee, indigo, and certain kinds of wine. It banned the importation of rum and French wine. Th ease taxes only affected certain parts of the population. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22,1763. An act of the British Parliament that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspaper and legal and commercial documents. Colonia opposition led to the act's repeal in 1766 and helped encourage the revolutionary movement against the British Crown. -
Townshed Act
Despite the repeal of the Stamp Act, Parliament still recovered money to financed the French and Indian War. The tension between the britians and Americans grew more intense once the 1767 Townshed Act was passed on. The act was authorized that Parliament to new sets of taxes on demand imports. -
Boston Massacre
A crowd harassed the solders by throwing sticks, stones, and snowballs at them. Soon someone yelled,"Fire!" And soldiers began shooting and they killed five towns people and only 6 were wounded. The spiders were sent to trial and the captain and 6 solders were sent free. Only two soilders were founded guilty. -
Tea Act
It's purpose was to save the East India Company from bankrupt by removing all duties on tea shipped, making the British tea price less than the colonia tea. The colonist never accepted the duties on tea. On December 16, 1773, the colonist boarded East India Company ships and dump their loads of tea overboard. -
Boston Tea Party
The government in Londan had given a British company the right to sell tea directly to the colonies, thereby undercutting A,erican merchents. Then it was protested by a group of Masschusetts disguised as Mohawks and led by Samuel Adams. They boarded there British ships and dump their load of tea overboard. -
Intolerable Act
This act was the American Patriots name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament after the Boston Tea Party. There were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonist for their defiance at the Boston harbor. The harbor had to close until the people of Boston ere able to paid for all of the tea that was dumped into the ocean. -
Declaration of Independence
It was written b Thomas Jefferson and adopted by the Second Continetal Congress. The main reason why it was created was to explain to foreign nations why the colonies separated from Great Britian. After the revolutionary war we had gaine dour independence from England and this document was the official announcement of it.
