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French/Indian war
The French/Indian war took place from 1754 to 1763. It is also known as the 7 years war.It caused more deaths than the American war and was caused by the disagreeing on ideas between riches and colonial territory. -
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Causes of American war breakdown
This timeline shows how the events leading up to the war shaped the future for the American colonies. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was an act passed in 1765 that placed a tax on all paper items including stamps, legal documents, licenses etc. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend act was a series of taxes placed on items including tea, paper, lead, and glass. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre took place in 1770 and took the lives of five colonists. -
The Boston tea party
The Boston Tea party took place in 1773. Over 100 colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor. -
The Tea Act
The tea act was put in place by the british and it required that all americans drink british tea, with a tax on it. -
Intolerable Acts
The intolerable acts were a series of laws put in place following the Boston tea party. Individually these acts were called the boston port act, the Massechusettes government act, and the Quebec act. -
1st and 2nd continental congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting to "organize colonial resistance to Parliment's Coercive Acts." The second Continental Congress took place in order to "manage colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence." -
Lexington and Concord
Lexington and Concord were two battles that sort of "kicked off" the revolutionary war. The Americans had taken their first step to independence. -
The publishing of common sense
The publishing of common sense took place in 1776 and was the fisrst actual plea for independence to the british.