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French and Indian War
British and American soldiers fought French and Native American for control of North America. The French and Indian War ended in 1763. Britian was being chased by a lot of the debts that they could only get back by putting tax on the people. That's how the French and Indian War lead to the American Revolution. -
Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation was issued by the British King George III. The Proclamation of 1763 was made following the British victory over France in the French and Indian Wars. The Molasses Act, The Sugar Act, the Currency Act, and the Stamp Act encouraged the anti-British attitude that eventually culminated in the American Revolutionary War. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was a tax imposed by the British government on the American colonies. The Stamp act was between Britian and American, the Stamp Act served as the "last straw" the colonists were willing to put up with from Great Britian and how it controlled the colonies. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts was the acts of the British Parliament in 1767, especially the act that placed duties on tea, paper, lead, paint, etc., imported into the American colonies. This was happening between June 15, and July 2 1767. The Townshend Acts, passed by Parliament in 1767, led to renewed protests in the American colonies. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre (the killing of five men by British soldiers on March 5,1770) was the culmination civillian-military tensions that had been growing since royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768. The Boston Massacre was a clash between British troops and townspeople in Boston in 1770, before the Revolutionary War. -
The Tea Act
The Tea lead to the American Revolution because it was a tax that the British taxed on colonies. The Tea Act was an act of the British Parliament that created a monoply unfair to American tea merchants. -
Boston Tea Party
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/boston+tea+partyThe Boston Tea Party was an act of defiance toward the British government by American colonists; it took place in 1773, before the Revolutionary War. -
Intolerable Acts
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/intolerable+actsThe Intolerable Acts was the American Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party which also led to the Revolutionary War. -
Lexington and Concord
http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/battles-of-lexington-and-concordThe Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, kicked off the American Revolutionary War (1775-83) -
Declaration of Independence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_IndependenceThe Declaration of Independence is the usual name of a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.
