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French and Indian War
In 1753, George Washington on a mission deep into the Ohio Country to confront the French. Washington’s account of his journey to Fort Le beouf and back made Major Washington a celebrity on both sides of the Atlantic. In 1754 Washington’s surprise attack upon a small French force at Jumonville Glen. -
proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was issued by the British at the end of the French and Indian War to appease Native Americans by checking the encroachment of European settlers on their lands. It created a boundary, known as the proclamation line, separating the British colonies. -
Sugar Act
Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act. Which was about to expire. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses.This hurt the British West Indies market in molasses and sugar and the market for rum. -
Stamp Act of 1765
The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first internal tax levied directly on Americans colonists by the British Parliament. The act, which imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies, came at a time when the British Empire was deep in debt from the Seven Years of war during the years 1756-1763. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts were a series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies in 1767. They placed new taxes and took away some freedoms from the colonists of New Taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea.
Established an American Customs Board in Boston to collect taxes.
Set up new courts in America to prosecute smugglers
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The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot that occurred on March 5, 1770, on King Street in Boston. It began as a street brawl between American colonists and a lone British soldier. The conflict energized anti-British sentiment and paved the way for the American Revolution. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act of 1773 was one of several measures imposed on the American colonists by the heavily indebted British government in the decade leading up to the American Revolutionary War that lasted from 1775-1783 . The act's main purpose was not to raise revenue from the colonies but to bail out the floundering East India Company, a key actor in the British economy. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston in Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. The event was the first major act of defiance to British rule over the colonists. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts, also called the Restraining Acts and the Coercive Acts, were a series of British Laws, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain 1774. Four of the Intolerable Acts were specifically aimed at punishing the Massachusetts colonists for the actions taken in the incident known as the Boston Tea Party. -
1st Congressional Congress
The first major American opposition to British policy came in 1765 after Parliament passed the Stamp Act is was a taxation measure designed to raise revenues for a standing British army in America. Under the argument of no taxation without representation. Colonists convened the Stamp Act Congress in October 1765 to vocalize their opposition to the tax.