Top Ten Events

French and Indian War Ends

Aug 30, 1763

-Great Britian is in Debt
-Taxes are imposedto help economy
-No voice in Parliment ('TWOR")
-Taxation Without Representation

The Sugar Act ( The American Revenue Act )

Aug 30, 1764

-Parliment passed a modified version of the Sugar Molasses Act (1733) which was about to expire.

Stamp Act of 1765

Mar 22, 1765

-Tax stamps on all legal documents
-The colonist complained and the British got rid of the Stamp Act

Boston Massacre

Mar 5, 1770

British troops fired into a crowd
killed 5 colonist

The Gaspee Affair

Jun 9, 1772

The Sons of Liberty were active through out the colonies, and the British officers charged with enforcing the customs and laws and The Stamp Act were becoming aggressive.

Boston Tea Party

Dec 16, 1773

tea is taxed
cargo is dumped into boston harbor

"Intolerable" Acts

Mar 31, 1774

-Boston Port Act
-Closed Boston Harbor

"The Shot Heard Around the World"

Apr 19, 1775

-Minutemen and Redcoats clash at Lexington and Concord
-Britians Gerneral Gage had a secret plan to capture Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington
-In Concord they would seize gun powder
-Paul Revere found out (along with other riders) and went to the countryside to warn the people "The British Are Coming"

Battle of Bunker Hill

Jun 17, 1775

American troops tried to bombard British ships in Boston Harbor.
Americans took the British down!!!!

The Virginia Declaration of Rights

Jun 12, 1776

A Declaration of Rights made by the representitves of the good people of Virginia, which rights do pertain to them and there posterity, as the basis and foundation of government.

Declaration of Independence was written

Jun 30, 1776

Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence