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only ships owned by England could come in,
First in 1651 to restrict trade.
Decreased need for foreign goods.

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The French and Indian war was a seven year  war between England and the American colonies, against the French.
when the war ended, France was no longer in control of Canada.
The Indians that had been threatening the American colonists were defeated.

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sugar act it placed a tax on molasses and sugar imported by the colonies.

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the stamp act placed a tax on all printed material such as newspapers marriage license playing cards and over 40 other documents.

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The Declaratory Act was a reaction of British Parliament to the failure of the Stamp Act.
it stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain.
Parliament had directly taxed the colonies for revenue in the Sugar Act (1764) and the Stamp Act (1765).

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placed taxes on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea. Townshend Acts of 1767 had imposed new taxes on lead, paint, paper, glass, and tea imported to the colonies. The Townshend Acts were a series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies.

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An angry mob of colonists gathered near a customs house that British soldiers were guarding. Colonists began throwing snowballs at the troops. Troops fires into the crowd. this event became known as the Boston massacre 5 dead 6 wounded.

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The Townshend Act was repealed but a new Tea Act was implemented which didn't sit well with the sons of Liberty. The company was not taxed to ship the tea to the colonies, but the colonies had to pay a tax to England for the tea. led to a boycott on tea & eventually the event known as the Boston Tea party.

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Colonists along with the sons of Liberty went aboard the ships Beaver, Dartmouth, & Eleanor and dumped boxes of British tea into the Boston Harbor as a form of protest.

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The British could tolerate strongly worded letters or trade boycotts. They could put up with defiant legislatures and harassed customs officials to an extent. But they saw the destruction of 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company as wanton destruction of property by Boston thugs who did not even have the courage to admit responsibility.

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Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities particularly in Massachusetts. On the night of April 18 1775 hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache. Paul Revere and other riders sounded the alarm, and colonial militiamen began mobilizing to intercept the Redcoat column.

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The Declaration of Independence was the first formal statement by a nation’s people asserting their right to choose their own government. When armed conflict between bands of American colonists and British soldiers began in April 1775, the Americans were ostensibly fighting only for their rights as subjects of the British crown. In mid-June 1776, a five-man committee including Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin was tasked with drafting a formal statement of the colonies’ intentions.

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The Battle of Saratoga occurred in September and October, 1777, during the second year of the American Revolution. It included two crucial battles, fought eighteen days apart, and was a decisive victory for the Continental Army and a crucial turning point in the Revolutionary War.

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When British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and his army surrendered to General George Washington’s American force and its French allies at the Battle of Yorktown on October 19, 1781, it was more than just military win. The outcome in Yorktown, Virginia marked the conclusion of the last major battle of the American Revolution and the start of a new nation's independence. It also cemented Washington’s reputation as a great leader and eventual election as first president of the United States.

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The Treaty of Paris of 1763 ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years War between Great Britain and France as well as their respective allies.  In the terms of the treaty France gave up all its territories in mainland North America effectively ending any foreign military threat to the British colonies there. set the geographic boundaries for the new united states.