French & Indian War
Fought together against the British
French and Indians
Passed to raise money for colonial defense
Sugar Act
Taxed molasses
Sugar Act
First man killed in American Revolution
Crispus Attucks
Led an attack on Fort Detroit
Pontiac
War is also known as
Seven Years War
Passed to raise money and regulate trade
Townshend Act
Taxed the favored beverage of the colonies
Tea Tax
British troops opened fire on colonists
Boston Massacre
First Continental Congress
Britain gained this from Spain at the War's end
The Proclamation Line of 1763 forbid settlers from moving west of these
Appalachian Mountains
Tax on all paper products from playing cards to legal documents
Stamp Act
Protest against the tea tax
Boston Tea Party
King of England during this period
George III
This ended the War
The Intolerable Acts were punishment for
Boston Tea Party
Meeting of representatives for all 13 colonies, held in response to the Stamp Act
Stamp Act Congress
British response to the Boston Tea Party
Coercive/Intolerable Acts
Taxes weren't the real issue, the colonists were more upset about
lack of representation
Intended to avoid war with Indians by limiting settlement over the Appalachians
Proclamation Line of 1763
Intolerable Act which forced colonists to house British soldiers
Quartering Act
Tax on imports: glass, paint, lead, paper, tea
Townshend Act
Group that lead the Boston Tea Party
Sons of Liberty
Groups set up to coordinate boycotts and share information between colonies
Committees of Correspondence