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French and Indian War
French and Indian War created the first main hostilities between the Colonies and Great Britian as England demanded that Colonists pay for war debt -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act created a tax on sugar and molasses that adversly effected colonial trade in the French West Indies and else where -
The Currency Act
The Currency Act effectively allowed Parliament to have control over colonial currency -
The Stamp Act
Stamp Act required colonists to by stamps on certain paper goods -
The Stamp Act Congress
The Stamp Act Congress was created to protest the Stamp Act and list grievences of other Acts passed by Congress -
The Townshend Act
Townshend Act created tazes on glass, paint, oil, lead,paper and tea -
The Tea Act
Tea Act was created to prop up the East India Company, it also undermined local merchants -
The Boston Tea Party
Sons of Liberty boarded three ships dressed as Native Americans and dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were a series of six separate acts created to force the colonies to bare the burden of war debts from the French and Indian war -
First Continental Congress
Delegates met in Philadelphia to discuss grievences with England, it was important that the King and Parliament understood Colonial grievences -
Boston Massacre
British soliders shot on Boston citizens and killed 7
Boston Massacre -
Lexington and Concord
"Shot heard around the world" General Gage, lead a group of British soliders from Boston to seize gunpowser stockpiles in Lexington and Concord -
Second Continental Congress
Delegates met in Philadelphia to figure things out,decided they needed a Continental Army, delcared George Washington as lead of Army and created an Olive Branch Petition to King George -
Battle of Bunker Hill
The British drive colonists from Breed's Hill, American troops accidently took up position on Breed's hill instead of Bunker Hill like directed -
"Common Sense"
"Common Sense "challenged the British government and openly asked for independence -
Declaration of Independence
Congress debates, revises and adopts the Declaration of Independence -
Battles of Saratoga
Battle of Saratoga was considered the turning point in the American Revolution -
Valley Forge
George Washington and his men retired to spend the winter of 1777 in Valley Forge, it was full of stravation, cold and horrid conditions -
French Alliance
The United States and French sign an alliance in which the French agree to lend support to the American cause -
Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation was the first consitituion of the United States -
Surrender at Yorktown
General Cornwallis surrended to Americans at Yorktown, the war is offically over -
Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Paris signed by Americans and British, England offically agrees to recongize American Independence