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The main cause of this seven year war was over land. If the upper Ohio River valley was part of the British Empire then it would be open to trade and settlement for Virginians and Pennsylvanians, but if the land belonged to the French Empire then they would not have those opportunities. The French had many native American allies. The natives rallied to help defeat the British. Because of the natives' help The French were winning the war. But things changed when the leader of the English Parliament took over. William Pitt really wanted to win this war for England and he put a lot of money and time into it; finally in 1763 the French gave up. The British made the colonists help fight in the war with them because of this the colonists became angry so they worked to get stronger so they could fight the British army. The British had just fight in this war and spent a lot of money on it. The British believe that the colonists should pay for some or all of the British needs because they were protecting the British colonies from France. The Spanish Who helped the British win the war gained land west of the Mississippi river. With the Native Americans getting nothing for helping. This war had a lot of influence on the American revolution beginning in 1775.

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The proclamation Act was a law passed by the British Parliament as an attempt to set a western border around the 13 colonies. This law made it illegal for colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains. By passing this law they hoped it would reduce the amount of Native American attacks and the need for soldiers on the borders. The law did not succeed because colonists had already started settling in the west. Years later the law was changed to recognize western settlements.

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The Sugar act was a tax passed on sugar, wine, indigo, and molasses to help pay the cost of the French and Indian war. Parliament believed that most of the fighting was to defend the colonists so they should have to pay some of the expenses. New England merchants used molasses to make the rum. This tax almost stopped rum trade from New England to other colonists like the French, Dutch, and Spanish entirely. The New England colonies protested. Colonial leaders feared Britain might take away their power to tax. The sugar act didn't raise enough money for the war so then started the Stamp act.

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This Act required colonists to buy stamps to place on paper goods (newspaper, books, legal papers etc.) pretty much everyone needed to pay this tax. This tax affected lawyers and publishers the most. Many could not afford to buy books, not even prayer books. This act was extremely unpopular with the colonists. Colonial leaders use this tax as a chance to convince colonists that they were being taxed unfairly because they had no voice in government. The colonists stood up for themselves and demanded this law be repealed. Parliament did repeal this law after Ben Franklin brought the petition back to parliament in England. But the British Parliament still needed money.

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The reasoning for this act was to defray the cost of maintaining British troops in the American colonies. Parliament was requiring each colony to provide soldiers with bedding, cooking utensils, firewood, beer or cider and candles. Colonies were required to house soldiers in commercial properties like inns, stables, uninhabited homes and barns. Colonists saw this as extremely unfair and annoying. This act also had a big impact on the start of the American revolution because the soldiers were living in public places and this is why the Boston massacre happened in 1770.

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A law that said Parliament had the right to govern and tax the colonies. This law was made so that the position of the British crown was clear and the crown was the real government in the colonies. The colonists had to obey the British laws. Colonial leaders were furious with this because it basically stated that they had no real power and that is what they feared.

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In order to make more money and remind the colonists that they were in charge Parliament passed the Townshend acts. The Townshend acts were a series of laws that the king's financial minister suggested. These laws were, colonist had to house British troops, feed and provide shelter for them. Taxes were placed on some goods brought to the colonies. In order to enforce these taxes parliament issued writs of assistance.  writs of assistance were search warrants British officers could use to enter a home at any time to make sure there weren't any smuggled goods. The colonists did not like this law either because the British soldiers, who were paid poorly, started to accept side jobs for lower wages and colonists had been paid. So now the colonists were losing their jobs to the soldiers that they had to feed and provide shelter for. The sons of liberty asked merchants not to sell goods shipped in from Britain at all. The daughters of liberty encourage women to make their own clothes and use American made goods. The main reason they were angry was that Parliament had no idea what was actually happening in the colonies and were taxing them without them having a say in the laws or taxes.

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Due to the colonists' opposition towards the British Parliament, a crowd of colonists confronted 8 British Soldiers on the matter. The soldiers fired their muskets out of irritation from the colonists, killing 5 of the colonists including Crispus Attucks, the first to be killed in the revolutionary war. Paul Revere distributed prints of a misleading image, showing innocent colonists getting shot by British soldiers. This use of propaganda enraged the colonists.

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Repeal of the Townshend Acts, April, 1770 

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Repeal of the Townshend Acts, April, 1770 

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After the Boston massacre, tension was growing between the British and the colonists due to all of the mess that was being sorted out. Because of this, the British Parliament repealed all taxes besides the tax on tea. The connection between the British and colonists was still inflamed after the acts were repealed.

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Rhode Islanders boarded and sank a British Revenue Cutter, Gaspee. They disabled the commander and set the ship on fire. The British put in an effort to bring the culprits to justice but the group who raided the Gaspee were never punished.

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In hopes to seize the colony's government, the British parliament passed the Tea Act. The law gave a British tea company, the East India Tea Company, the right to all tea trade with the colonies. Because it was all through this company, the colonists had to pay tax on tea for the parliament needed money. The colonists' resistance towards the tea act resulted in the Boston tea party of 1773. Colonists boarded the East India company’s ships and dumped loads of tea overboard.

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After the Boston Tea Party, the British Parliament issued harsh laws as punishment towards Massachusetts. These laws include letting British troops stay at anyone’s house whenever they wanted. They also closed Boston Harbor until the tea was paid for and the committees of correspondence were banned. This caused the colonists to form the first Continental Congress to discuss their approach to the British.

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In Philadelphia, representatives came from each colony besides Georgia to meet. At the meeting, they voted to stop trading with the British until they repealed the intolerable acts. Georgia couldn’t attend because they had an uprising with the native Americans. Parliament didn’t repeal the intolerable acts. Instead, they put more limits on colonial trade and sent more soldiers.

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The second Continental Congress met soon after the Revolutionary war began. At the meeting, they appointed George Washington as commander of the Continental army. The British were enraged toward the meeting. The petition was rejected and unseen by King George.