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1756 BCE
French-Indian War (1756-1763)
whether the upper Ohio River valley was a part of the British Empire, and therefore open for trade and settlement by Virginians and Pennsylvanians, or part of the French Empire. -
Declaratory Act 1765
declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. -
Stamp Act 1765
The act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards. -
Townshend Acts 1767
initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
Boston Massacre March 5 1770
On March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired upon a group of rowdy colonists, killing five and wounding others. -
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. -
Intolerable Acts (aka Coercive Acts) 1773
a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
Quartering Act 1774
The last act passed was the Quartering Act of 1774 which applied not just to Massachusetts, but to all the American colonies, and was only slightly different than the 1765 act. -
Battle of Lexington & Concord 1775
The Battles of Lexington and Concord on 19 April 1775, the famous 'shot heard 'round the world. -
Second Continental Congress May 1775
The Second Continental Congress met on May 10, 1775, to plan further responses if the British government did not repeal or modify the acts -
Common Sense 1776
Common Sense is 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
the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain