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French/Indian War
The French and Indian War was part of the Seven Years War waged between France and England. They fought for control of North America and the rich fur trade. -
French/Indian War
The French and Indian War was part of the Seven Years War waged between France and England. They fought for control of North America and the rich fur trade. -
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French/Indian War
The French and Indian War was part of the Seven Years War waged between France and England. They fought for control of North America and the rich fur trade. -
The Stamp Act
Parliament passed An Act for Granting and Applying Certain Stamp Duties in the British Colonies and Plantations in America, commonly called "The Stamp Act." -
Townshed Act
The acts consisted of the Revenue Act of 1767 which placed a tax on British goods imported into the colonies such as glass, tea, lead, paints and paper. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a deadly attack between British soldiers and a Boston mob. -
The Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts included five intolerable laws. One section of the act closed Boston harbor to further tea shipments until Bostians paid for all the tea they had destroyed in 1773. Another law restricted the activities of the Massachusetts legislature and gave added powers to the post of the governor of Massachusetts. Colonists thought of King George as more of a dictator instead of their King. The colonists organized resistance to the acts, and a division between colonists emerged. -
The Tea Act
The Tea Act of 1773 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. Its objective was to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East India -
Boston Tea Party
This law gave one British company the right to control all trade in tea with the colonies. A group of colonists in Boston, dressed as Native Americans boarded three tea ships anchored in Boston harbor. They dumped over 300 chests of tea into the salty water. -
1st and 2nd Continental Congress
55 members representing every colony but Georgia assemble in Philadelphia for the First Continental Congress. The Congress agrees to vote by colony. During The Second Continental Congress had no choice but to assume the role of a revolutionary government, though it has no resources. -
Lexington and Concord
The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
British troops had moved from Boston toward Lexington and Concord to seize the colonists' military supplies and arrest revolutionaries. -
Publishing of Common Sense
It was a 48 page pamphlet that clearly and persuasively argues for American separation from Great Britain and paves the way for the Declaration of Independence.
