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French-Indian War(1756-1763)
In order to recoup some of the losses Britain incurred defending its American colonies, Parliament decided for the first time to tax the colonists directly -
Stamp Act 1765
The Stamp Act was a tax on paper -
Townshend Acts 1767
Parliament initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea -
Boston Massacre 1770
British sentries guarding the Boston Customs House shot into a crowd of civilians, killing three men and injuring eight, two of them mortally. -
Boston Tea Party 1773
Colonists dumping crates of tea into Boston Harbor. The Boston Tea Party is known as a central event in the American Revolution. But, it was simply the culmination of a series of events which led the thirteen American colonies closer to independence. -
Intolerable Acts 1774
The Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act. -
Quartering Act 1774
The complaint was about troops being quartered in towns at the expense of colonists. -
Battle of Lexington & Concord 1775
The famous 'shot heard 'round the world', marked the start of the American War of Independence -
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
God made all men equal and gave them the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, states the principles on which our government, and our identity as Americans, are based