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What: Pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes.
Who: Great Britain, France and Native American tribes.
Why: To determine control of the vast colonial territory of North America.
When: 1754
Where: New York, Pennsylvania, Canada, and Nova Scotia

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What: The Royal Proclamation was initially issued by King. George III to officially claim British territory in North America after Britain won the Seven Years War.
Who: King George III
Why: To slow the uncontrolled western expansion of the colonies and regulate the relationship between First Nations people and colonists.
When: 1763
Where: The Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide.

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What: Required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards.
Who:  British Parliament and American Colonist.
Why:  British Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which sought to raise money because they were Debt after the French and Indian War.
When: March 22, 1765
Where: New York City

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What: The Quartering Act stated that Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and public houses.
Who: British Soldiers
Why: The Quartering Act was passed primarily in response to greatly increased empire defense costs in America following the French and Indian War and Pontiac's War.
When: May 15, 1765
Where: All the American colonies.

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What: Initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.
Who: British Parliament and American Colonies
Why: To help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies.
When: June 29th 1767
Where: American Colonies

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What: A street fight between a patriot mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers.
Who: Patriots and British soldiers.
Why: The tensions that led to the Boston Massacre were the product of the occupation of Boston by Redcoats in 1768.
When: March 5, 1770
Where: Boston, Massachusetts

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What: Gave the East India Company a tax break on their tea.
Who: British Parliament and American Colonist
Why: The British Parliament passes the Tea Act to save the faltering East India Company from bankruptcy.
When: May 10, 1773
Where: Boston

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What: The Boston Tea Party was a political protest where  American colonist dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.
Who:  Samuel Adams and his Sons of Liberty and organized by John Hancock.
Why: American colonists were frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation."
When: December 16, 1773,
Where: Boston, Massachusetts

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What: Intolerable Acts were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.
Who: British Parliament
Why: Meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British to the detriment of colonial goods.
When: 1774
Where: Great Britain.

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What: The Battles of Lexington and Concord was when the famous 'shot heard 'round the world', marked the start of the American War of Independence.
Who: British regulars and American provincials.
Why: The British marched into Lexington and Concord intending to suppress the possibility of rebellion by seizing weapons from the colonists.
When: 19 April 1775
Where: Lexington and Concord