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french indian war
the war was a clash between the eniglish and the french over territory and wealth -
stamped act
The Stamp Act was a law passed by the British Parliament it was a tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. -
townshend acts
The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed, beginning in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. a series of laws which set new import taxes on British goods including paint, paper, lead, glass and tea and used revenues to maintain British troops in America . -
boston massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight between a patriot mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed. -
tea act
The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. -
boston tea party
during the night, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard to wage war againts the taxation of tea. -
Intolerable Acts
Intolerable Acts were passed by the British Parliament in 1774 as punishment for the destruction wrought during the Boston Tea Party, a violent reaction to the British tea tax of 1773. -
Continental Congress
Continental Congress served as the government of the 13 American colonies.the first met in 1774 in reaction to the Coercive Acts, a series of measures imposed by the British government on the colonies in response to their resistance to new taxes. In 1775, the Second Continental Congress convened after the American Revolutionary War had already begun. it took the first accual steps of declaring America’s independence from Britain. -
lexington and concord
hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache. Paul Revere and other rides warned the colonists, and they fought the british.
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publication of common sense
is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776
