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French and Indian War 1754
The French and Indian War started in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war included Great Britain many territorial gains in North America, but over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses t lead to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution. -
Declaratory Act 1765
The Declaratory Act declared by the British Parliament and the Parliament could make laws binding the American colonies "in all cases whatsoever. -
Stamp Act 1765
This act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards.It was a tax by the British government without the approval of the colonial legislatures and was payable in hard-to-obtain British sterling, rather than colonial currency. -
Townshend Acts 1767
Townshend Acts. It helped 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
A late afternoon of March 5, 1770, British sentries were taken care of the Boston Customs House shot into a crowd of civilians, killing three men and injuring eight, two of them mortally. -
Intolerable Acts (aka Coercive Acts) 1773
The British Parliament passed the Tea Act in May 1773 to help the company. This helped the East India Company take a tax break on their tea, which made it cheaper than tea that was being smuggled into the colonies from other places. -
Common Sense 1776
The common sense act promoted the idea of American exceptionalism and the need to form a new nation to realize its promise, Paine's pamphlet not only attracted public support for the Revolution but put the rebellion's leaders in pressure to declare independence. -
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. American colonists, were angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea -
Quartering Act 1774
This new act 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 on 19 April 1775, marked the start of the American War of Independence, Politically disastrous for the British, it persuaded many Americans to take up arms and support the cause of independence. -
Second Continental Congress May 1775
The Second Continental Congress met on May 10, 1775, to plan future responses if the British government did not repeal or change the acts; however, the American Revolutionary War had started by that time with the Battles of Lexington and Concord, and the Congress was called upon to take charge of the war effort. -
Declaration of Independence 1776
The Declaration Independence, is the independence that the United states set themselves free from Great Britain.It was an official act taken by all 13 American colonies in declaring independence from British rule.