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French/Indian War
This was a conflict that happened before the revolutionary war. It was between Colonial America and Britain against the French and Native Americans. -
Stamp act
The stamp act's purpose of the tax was to help pay for troops stationed in North America following the British Victory in the Seven Years' War. It met great resistance in the colonies. -
Townshend Acts
These were a series of acts passed in the beginning of 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. These acts include the Revenue Act of 1767, the Indemnity Act, the Commissioners of Custom Act, the Vice Admiralty Court Act, and the New York Restraining Act. -
The Boston Massacre
This was also called the incident on King Street by the British, British Army soldiers killed five civilian men and injured six others. -
Tea Act
It was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain. Its principle was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the people struggling to survive. -
Boston Tea Party
This was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston against the tax policy of the british government and the east india company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies -
Intolerable Acts
These describe a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Britain's colonies in North America. There were four acts, all of them were in response to the Boston Tea Party. -
1st and 2nd Continental Congress
It was a convection of delegates from twelve British North American colonies and was in response to the passage of the intolerable acts. The second congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the US Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
These were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War -
Publishing of Common Sense
It was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. It was published anonymously on January 10, 1776 at the start of the American Revolution.
