By: Kelsey Allgor and Haylee Lunsford

 The French and Indian War, as it was referred to in the colonies, was the beginning of open hostilities between the colonies and Gr. Britain. England and France had been building toward a conflict in America since  The French and Indian War was a seven-year war between England and the American colonies, against the French and some of the Indians in North America.

 The Navigation Acts were passed by the English Parliament in the seventeenth century.  1. Only British ships could transport imported and exported goods from the colonies.  2. The only people who were allowed to trade with the colonies had to be British citizens.  3. Commodities such as sugar, tobacco, and cotton wool which were produced in the colonies could be exported only to British ports.  Before 1763 the English civil war and the Glorious Revolution were taking place in Europe.

 On October 7, 1763, King George III issued a royal proclamation that caused a furor amongst the colonists.  This Proclamation of 1763 closed lands north and west of the Appalachian Mountains to settlement.  The goal of the British was to put a stop to conflicts that had arisen between the Native Americans and the colonists due to the French and Indian War.

 April 5,1764  The purpose was to raise money to pay back the debt that England had after fighting the French in the Seven Years War.

 February 6,1765

 March 18,1766  The first defining fact of the declaratory act of 1766 was that it followed hard on the heels of Parliament's repel of the detested stamp act of 1765, England's first major retreat in the face of colonial American resistance.