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The French/Indian War
The new world conflict marked another chapter in the long imperial struggle between France and Great Britain. France's expansion into the Ohio River, it brought repeated conflict with the claims of the British Colonies -
Stamp Act
The first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British government is called the Stamp Act. The act, which imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies came around the time when the British Empire was deep in debt from the seven years war -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Act imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea imported into the colonies -
Boston Massacre
A mob of American Colonists gathered at the custom house in Boston and started to taunt the British Soldiers whom were guarding the building. British Captain Thomas Preston ordered his men to join the guards outside the building so the Patriots started to throw snowballs and other items at them. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea party was a political protest by the sons of liberty in Boston, Massachusetts. They threw 342 chests of tea overboard -
Tea act
The act's main purpose was not to raise revenue from the colonies but to bail, out the floundering East India Company -
Intolerable Acts
These were harsh laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774. They were meant to punish the American Colonists for the Boston Tea Party and other protests. -
1st and 2nd Continental Congressn
Delegates from each colonies except for Georgia met in Philadelphia as the First Continental Congress to organize colonial resistance to parliament coercive acts -
Lexington and Concord
On the night of April 18, 1775 British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache -
Publishing of Common Sense
"Common Sense" is a Thomas Paine's pamphlet setting forth his arguments in favor of American Independence.
