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The French and Indian war
The French and Indian war was the bloodiest American war in the 18th century. The British won that unforgettable battle. This battle lasted 7 years started may 28th ended Feb 10th 1763 -
The proclamation line of 1763
The Proclamation line of 1763 was issued by king George the third of England after the French and Indian war in order to accomplish several goals. The goals were to establish governments for their new territories claimed after the French and Indian war -
The Suger Act
The tax of sugar. Parliament's forced the colonies to buy sugar of the competing Spanish and French island. The Tax was high and strictly enforced. Many worked their way around the tax by smuggling and bribing customs officials. -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was an act of parliament of great Britain that imposed a direct tax on the colonies of British America and required important printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper that was produced in London. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed beginning in 1767 by the parliament of great Britain relating to the British colonies of North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5th 1770 between a "Patriot' mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonist's were killed and this led to a campaign by speech writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry. The Colonist's started this fight and tried to lie about it in court but they lost the trial. The soldiers only fired because one of the colonist's yelled ''fire'' and that's where the deaths began. -
Committee of correspondance
The committee of correspondence rallied colonial opposition against British policy and established a political union among the thirteen colonies. -
The Boston Tea Party
Sons of liberty dump British tea. On this day in 1773 a group of Massachussetts Colonist's disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships moored in Boston Harbor and dump 342 chests of tea into the water. Now known as "The Boston Tea Party" the midnight raid was a protest of the "Tea Act" of 1773. -
The first continental congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of thirteen colonies that met on Oct 5th to 26 1774 at carpenters hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early early in the American Revolution. It was called in response to "The passage of the Coercive Acts. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots term for the united laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts Colonist for their defiance of throwing a large shipment of tea into the Boston Harbor in reaction by being taxed by the British. -
Battles Of Lexington And Concord
The Battles Of Lexington And Concord was fought on April 19, 1775.
Britain's General Gage had a secret plan. His plan was to send out regiments of British soldiers quartered in Boston. Their destination was Lexington where they would capture colonial leaders Sam Adams, and John Hancock, then concored where they would seize gunpowder. And many knew because it started to spread fast. -
The Tea Act
Tea Act of 1773 was an act of the parliament of great Britain. The principle objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive.
