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1760-1776

  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris
    The Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Year War between Great Britain and France
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act
    Taxing sugar to raise revenue to help the military costs of protecting the American colonies
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    The British parliament had colonists pay a tax for British troops
  • Declaratory Act

    Declaratory Act
    Said that the Parliament could make laws binding the American colonies in all cases
  • Townshend Revenue Act

    Townshend Revenue Act
    British parliament taxed goods like tea, sugar, etc, imported to the American colonies
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    A mob began harassing soldiers. Then a soldier was knocked down by a snowball and shot his gun. Eventually it gets even worse and the soldiers end up killing a couple people.
  • Burning of the Gaspee

    Burning of the Gaspee
    Rhode Islanders boarded, burnt, and sank the Gaspee in Narragansett Bay
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act
    British government gave the company a monopoly on the importation and sale of tea in the colonies
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts
    4 laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party
  • Continental Congress

    Continental Congress
    delegates meet to organise opposition to the Intolerable Acts
  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

    Battle of Lexington and Concord
    The British went to Lexington and Concord to stop the possibility of rebellion by taking weapons from the colonists. But their actions accidentally made the first battle of the Revolutionary War.
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence
    The statement the declared freedom of the 13 colonies from Great Britain