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French and Indian War
The French and Indian war was a way for Great Britain to get a enormous gain in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the wars expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution. -
The Albany Congress
The Albany congress is when New York was at Albany, then advocated a union of the British colonies in North America for their security and defense against the French. -
The Sugar Act
The Sugar Act also called Plantation Act or Revenue Act, is when British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies and at providing increased revenues to fund enlarged British Empire responsibilities following the French and Indians. -
The Stamp Act
The stamp act was an act that required the colonist to pay tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of paper, and playing cards. It was an act in posed by the British government, without the approval of the colonist legislators and was payable in hard to obtain British Sterling, rather than Collin or currency. -
The stamp act congress
The Stamp Act Congress passed a "Declaration of Rights and Grievances," that had claimed that American colonists were equal to all other British citizens. They protested taxation without representation, without colonial representation in Parliament. The parliament could not tax colonists. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a fight that was between a mob, that was throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks. Many colonist had got killed so then it led to a speech to rouse the ire of the citizenry. -
The Boston tea party
Boston Tea Party incident where tons of chests of tea belonging to the British Company. They were thrown from ships into the Boston Harbor by the American patriots. The Americans were protesting both a tax on tea and taxation without representation. -
The Intolerable acts
The intolerable acts was when a series of laws were passed by the British parliament. They did this to punish the colony of Massachusetts from the Boston Tea Party. -
Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me liberty or give me death” speech
The "Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death" speech, was delivered by Patrick Henry at the Virginia convention. Patrick's goal was to get the colonists to take arms against the British, but no revolution starts with just asking. -
Lexington and concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord signaled the start of the American Revolutionary war. The British Army had set out from Boston to capture rebel leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington. They wanted to destroy the Americans store of weapons and ammunition in Concord. -
The Bunker Hill battle
The Bunker Hill battle was the first most important battle during the American War of Independence. Even though they lost, the colonial forces had inflicted significantly against the enemy, and provided the, with big confident hosts during the Siege of Boston. -
The Declaration of Independence is ratified
The Declaration is a document announced the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain. It was the last of a series of steps that led the colonies to final separation from Great Britain.