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French and Indian War
The Franch and Indian War began in 1754 over the issue of whether Ohio River Valley apart of the British Empire. The War was speared all over the world until thee American Revolution in 1763. -
Sugar Act
U.S. , British legislation ending the trade in sugar and molasses. Early colonial protests at these duties were ended when the tax was lowered two years later. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was the act of when there was tax on anything paprer. North American aguged about the Stamp Act and ten years later it was no longer a law. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Act was the town banding New York.
These were payable at colonial ports and fell on lead, glass, paper, paint, and tea. It was the second time in the history -
Intolerable Acts
U.S. colonial history, four punitive measures enacted by the British Parliament in retaliation for acts of colonial defiance, together with the Quebec Act establishing a new administration for the territory ceded to Britain after the French and Indian War. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
On April 19, 1775 British troops and American colonists faced off the skirmishes near the Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord, marking the beginning of the American Revolution. -
Second Continental Congress
On this day in 1775, Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold lead a successful attack on Fort Ticonderoga in upstate New York, while the Second Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.The Congress faced the task of conducting a war already in progress -
Thomas Paine Common Sense
It fought and agured for men rights.HeIn April 1787 Paine left for Europe to promote his plan to build a single arch bridge across the wide Schuylkill River near Philadelphia. But in England he was soon diverted from his engineering project. -
Declaration Of Independence
When armed conflict between bands of American colonists and British soldiers began in April 1775. The Congress formally adopted the Declaration of Independence written largely by Jefferson in Philadelphia on July 4, a date now celebrated as the birth of American independence.
