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French-Indian War (1756-1763)
The French and Indian War aka the Sevens Years' War, was a war between France and England. -
Stamp Act 1765
On March 22,1765 the British Parliament passed the "Stamp Act" to help pay for British troops stationed in the colonies during the Seven Years' War. The act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by stamps, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards. -
Declaratory Act 1765
The Declaratory Act, passed by Parliament on the same day the Stamp act was repealed, stated that parliament could make laws binding the American colonies "in all cases whatsoever. -
Townshend Acts 1767
The Townshend Acts were a series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. But American colonists, who had no representation in Parliament, saw the Acts as an abuse of power. -
Boston Massacre March 5, 1770
On March 5,1770, British soldiers shot into a crowd, killing three people and mortally wounding two more, during a chaotic scene on King Street in Boston. -
Intolerable Acts (aka Coercive Acts) 1773
A series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of the Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
Boston Tea Party 1773
American colonists, frustrated at Britain for imposing "taxation without representation," dumped 342 chests of tea. -
Quartering Acts 1774
Allowed royal governors, rather than colonial legislatures, to find home and buildings to quarter or house British soldiers. -
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
It was to plan further responses if the British government did not repeal or modify the acts. -
Common Sense 1776
It's a 47 page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775-1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the 13 Colonies. -
Declaration of Independence 1776
The founding document of the United States. It was approved by the Continental Congress.