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Stamp Act 1765
The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War. -
French-Indian War (1756-1763)
The French and Indian War was a theater of the Seven Years' War, A war between France and England . Because of the French Indian War England taxed . -
Declaratory Act 1765
declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. -
Townshend Acts 1767
To help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
Boston Massacre March 5 1770
British soldiers fired upon a group of rowdy colonists, killing five and wounding others -
Boston Tea Party 1773
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. -
Intolerable Acts (aka Coercive Acts) 1773
a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party -
Quartering Act 1774
allowed royal governors, rather than colonial legislatures, to find homes and buildings to quarter or house British soldiers -
Battle of Lexington & Concord 1775
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were some of the leading military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Second Continental Congress May 1775
to plan further responses if the British government did not repeal or modify the acts; -
Common Sense 1776
a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. -
Declaration of Independence 1776
summarized the colonists' motivations for seeking independence.