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Molasses Act
The Molasses Act was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which imposed a tax of six pence per gallon on imports of molasses from non-English colonies. -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War began due to a conflict between England and France over control of the Ohio River Valley. Both sides wanted the valley so they could expand their settlements into the area. -
The Sugar Act
The Sugar Act has created a new tax on molasses imported from non-British to the colonists. -
Currency Act
One of the Acts of Parliament that regulated paper money issued by the colonies of British America. The Acts sought to protect British merchants and creditors from being paid in depreciated colonial currency. -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by 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. -
American Revolution
The Americans in the 13 colonies defeated the British in the American Revolutionary War with the assistance of France, winning independence from Great Britain -
The Declaratory Act
The Declaratory Act was a repeal of the stamp act and the changing and lessening the sugar act. It said that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America. -
The Townshend Act
The Townshend Acts were a series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies in 1767. They placed new taxes and took away some freedoms from the colonists. -
Tension in the Streets
Tension in the Streets was where the colonists started a war between themselves and the Bostonians. The colonies had a huge war and named it the encounter of the Boston massacre. The townspeople threw rocks at the soldiers. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was where the British were rioting in owe of the Colonists which lead to having five Americans dead. -
Tea Act
The Parliament granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies. The passing of the Tea Act imposed no new taxes on the American colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was where the colonist were trying to prove to the British that they can't tax them without their consent. They ended up dumping 342 chests of tea into the harbor. -
The Coercive Act
The Coercive Act described a series of laws passed by the British Parliament, relating to Britain's colonies in North America. -
The Battle of Lexington and Concord
The battle of Lexington and Concord was the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. They were 73 killed, 174 wounded, and 53 missing. -
First Continental Congress
People from the 13 colonies met in Philadelphia as the First Continental Congress to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts. -
Continental Congress
The Continental Congress was initially a convention of delegates from a number of British American colonies at the height of the American Revolution. -
Revolutionary War
The Revolutionary War was a war between Great Britain and its Thirteen Colonies in North America which declared independence in July 1776 as the United States. -
Declaration of Independence
The Deceleration of Independence was a paper signed that declared our independence it was signed at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia.
