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French and Indian war ends
Britain paid a large amount of money to keep the colonies safe and happy by fighting a war with France over control of the land in the Ohio River valley. -
Stamp Act congress
met in the Federal Hall building in New York City between October 7 and 25, 1765. It was the first colonial action against a British measure and was formed to protest the Stamp Act issued by British Parliament on March 1765. -
Stamp Act passed
The British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. -
Declaratory Act Passed
Stating that it had all power to make laws that were strong enough to keep the people in the colonies under Great Britain's control. -
Townshend Act Passed
were a series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies in 1767. were enacted, taxing British imports, products shipped from other countries such as glass, tea, lead, and paper -
Boston Massacre
Opened fire on a group of American colonists killing five men.he British had instituted a number of new taxes on the American colonies including taxes on tea, glass, paper, paint, and lead. -
Townshend Act Repealed
The British parliament repealed the Townshend duties on all but tea. Tea Act wasn't really raising any money from the colonists, it lower the price of tea. -
Tea Act
As designed to bail out the British East India Company and expand the company's monopoly on the tea trade to all British Colonies, selling excess tea at a reduced price. -
Boston Tea Party
The Sons of liberty dressed as Mohawk Indians,boarded British ships in Boston, and dumped the cargo of tea into the harbor. Boston harbol would be closed until the destroyed tea was paid. -
Coercive Act Passed
sought to punish Massachusetts as a warning to other colonies.the colonies united behind the belief that their rights were being violated by a would-be tyrant-the king. -
First Continental Congress
which was comprised of delegates from the colonies, met in 1774 in reaction to the Coercive Acts, a series of measures imposed by the British government on the colonies in response to their resistance to new taxes. -
Revolution War Begins
with the confrontation between British troops and local militia at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, on 19 April 1775. Throughout the war, state troops and local militias supplemented the Continental (Federal) Army. -
Second Continental Congress
represented the 13 former colonies which had declared themselves the "United States of America," and they endorsed the Declaration of Independence, he adopted the declaration of independence. -
Stamp Act Repealed
After months of protest, and an appeal by Benjamin Franklin before the British House of Commons, under all the pressure from the colonies , Britain ultimately decided to repeal the Stamp Act -
Declaration Of Independence signed
on July 4, 1776, with 12 of the 13 colonies voting in favor and New York abstaining. ... Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams all wrote that it was signed by Congress on the day when it was adopted on July 4, 1776.
