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the french and indian war-1754-1763
A war fought in North America it was the bloodiest American war in the 18th century. The war was the product of an imperial struggle, a clash between the French and English over colonial territory and wealth. Each side wanted to increase its land holdings. In the end the French had won the war in victory at Fort William Henry, which ended in a massacre of British soldiers by Indians allied with the French.
The proclamation of 1763 was sent out by the king of England (George the 3rd) on October 7th 1763. It said that colonists couldn't move anywhere more west than the Applachian mountains. This made the colonists mad
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Money collected by the Stamp Act was to be used to help pay the costs of defending and protecting the American frontier near the Appalachian Mountains.
In January of 1767, the Townshend Acts, British legislation intended to raise revenue, tighten customs enforcement, and assert imperial authority in America, were sponsored by Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend, and enacted on June 29, 1767. Americans protested the Townshend duties, as they had the earlier Stamp Act, with constitutional petitions, boycotts, and violence to even include "tar and feathering"
The Boston Massacre In 1770, increasing hostility and tension between the British military and Boston colonial civilians triggered an event that would turn the colonists into patriots who would oppose British rule. The Boston Massacre was not necessarily a battle, but an inciting incident that Paul Revere was able to turn into a piece of propaganda against the British and how it was thus a key event leading up to the Revolutionary War.
Boston Tea Party December 16, 1773, incident in which 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians. The Americans were protesting both a tax on tea (taxation without representation) and the perceived monopoly of the East India Company. The Townshend Acts passed by Parliament in 1767 and imposing duties on various products imported into the British colonies had raised such a storm of colonial protest and noncompliance that they were repealed in 1770, saving the duty on tea, which was retained by Parliament to demonstrate its presumed right to raise such colonial revenue without colonial approval. The merchants of Boston circumvented the act by continuing to receive tea smuggled in by Dutch traders.
The government spent immense sums of money on troops and equipment in an attempt to subjugate Massachusetts. British merchants had lost huge sums of money on looted, spoiled, and destroyed goods shipped to the colonies. The revenue generated by the Townshend duties, in 1770, amounted to less than 21,000. On March 5, 1770, Parliament repealed the duties, except for the one on tea. That same day, the Boston massacre set a course that would lead the Royal Governor to evacuate the occupying army from Boston, and would soon bring the revolution to armed rebellion throughout the colonies.
