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French-Indian War (1756-1763)
The French and Indian War aka the theater of the Seven Years' War,was a war between France and England. Because of the French Indian War England was in debt, so England taxed the people in the 13 colonies -
Declaratory Act 1765
passed by Parliament stated Parliament could make laws binding the American colonies "in all cases whatsoever." -
Stamp Act 1765
A tax on anything on paper -
Townshend Acts 1767
To help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which started taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
Boston Massacre March 5 1770
British soldiers shot into a crowd of people that were protesting and, killed three people and mortally wounding two more, during a chaotic scene on King Street in Boston. -
Boston Tea Party 1773
What happened in the 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. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. -
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
This new act allowed royal governors, rather than colonial legislatures, to find homes and buildings to quarter or house British soldiers. -
Battle of Lexington & Concord 1775
The Battles of Lexington and Concord on 19 April 1775, the famous 'shot heard 'round the world', marked the start of the American War of Independence (1775-83). -
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
By issuing the Declaration of Independence, adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain. The Declaration summarized the colonists' motivations for seeking independence.