• Because of distance between the two, Britain allows the American Colonies freedoms as long as they made money

• I give it a 6/10 in importance because it allowed the Colonies to begin revolution

1763

• stopped colonists from traveling westward into French and Native American land to prevent any conflict

• I give it a 3/10 in importance because westward travel didn't end up having a pivotal role in the revolution

• fought by the British and French over the Ohio river valley

• I give it a 8/10 because it was the reason for nearly all of the taxes imposed on the colonists

• tax on sugar to pay for the Seven Years War, but also to prevent any more smuggling of sugar and molasses

• I give it a 6/10 in importance because it was the first of many taxes to pay for the Seven Years War

• A tax on paper goods to pay for the cost of the Seven Years War

• I give it an 5/10 in importance because it added to the texts already imposed on the colonists

• formed because of the stamp act, the Sons of liberty were the very beginnings of the revolution and they organized the Boston Tea Party

• I give it a 9/10 in importance because it started the organized revolutionary movement in the colonies.

• Tax on glass, lead, paper, and tea to pay for british soldiers' wages.

• a boycott on these products was conducted by the Sons of Liberty in protest of the tax, but it failed, and the tax stayed in place

• I give it a 5/10 because it was another tax to add to the list of reasons for revolution.

• an act of parliament that required the colonial authorities to provide housing, food, and transportation to British soldiers occupying the colonies

• some colonists were evicted from their homes to allow for the soldiers

• I give it an 8/10 because it was one of the more serious transgressions against the colonists, and it caused the 3rd amendment to the constitution.

• after a group of boys threw stones through the windows of a British informant's house, two British soldiers came and one of them fired their musket at an eleven year old boy, who died later that night

• I give this a 9/10 because it raised tensions further and added to the unpopularity of the British regime in the colonies.

• after the British trade company, the East India Company had been in financial trouble, parliament gave them a monopoly on the tea trade in the colonies and caused outrage among the colonists.

• because of this, the Sons of Liberty arranged for a ransacking of three East India Co. trade ships in which members dressed as Mohawk Indians and threw 342 chests of tea into Boston harbor

• I give it a 7/10 in importance because it is the best known example of the acts of the sons of liberty, and because England retaliated with the Intolerable Acts.