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French/Indian War
The French and Native Americans join together to fight the British. Also called Seven Year War. British victory. -
Parliment Passes Stamp Act
Imposed a tax on documents and printed items such as wills, newspapers, and playing cards. -
Townshend Acts
A series of measures introduced into the English Parliament by Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend in 1767, the Townshend Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
Biritish soldiers kill five men in a mob that had come to taunt them. -
Tea Act
Lord North came up with the act. Granted British East India Company the right to sell tea to the colonies free of the taxes that colonial tea sellers had to pay. -
Boston Tea Party
Large group of Boston rebels dress as Indians and dump 18,000 of British tea into the Boston harbor in retaliation to the Tea Act. -
Intolerable Acts Passed
The 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. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
1st Constitutional Congress
The first Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, from September 5, to October 26, 1774. Carpenter's Hall was also the seat of the Pennsylvania Congress. All of the colonies except Georgia sent delegates. -
Lexington and Concord
First battles of revolutionary war. Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Samual Prescott warned that 700 Birtish troops were headed for Concord. Colonists win Concord. -
2nd Consititutional Congress
the First Continental Congress disbanded on October 26, 1774. The Revolutionary War. As promised, Congress reconvened in Philadelphia as the Second Continental Congress on May 10, 1775–and by then the American Revolution had already begun. -
Common Sense Published
Published in 1776, Common Sense challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. The plain language that Paine used spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain.
