French Indian war

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  • French-Indian War (1756-1763)

    French-Indian War (1756-1763)
    The French and Indian War aka the Seven Years' War between the French and Indians, they were fighting to maintain control of there land and culture.

  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    The Stamp Act 1765 was a tax on all colonial and commercial and legal papers, newspapers, pamphlets, card.

  • Declaratory Act

    Declaratory Act
    The Declaratory Act, stated that Parliament could make laws binding the American colonies "in all cases whatsoever."

  • Townshend Act

    Townshend Act
    The Townshend Acts. were to help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, it initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. Nonimportation.

  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    On March 5, 1770, British soldiers shot into a crowd, killing three people and mortally wounding two more.The event, which would come to be known as the Boston Massacre, would be used to turn colonists against King George III's rule.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    It was an act of protest in which a group of 60 American colonists threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to agitate against both a tax on tea.

  • Intolerable Acts (aka Coercive Acts)

    Intolerable Acts (aka Coercive Acts)
    The Coercive Acts of 1774, known as the Intolerable Acts in the American colonies, were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.

  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act
    allowed royal governors, rather than colonial legislatures, to find homes and buildings to house British soldiers.

  • Battle of Lexington & Concord

    Battle of Lexington & Concord
    The Battles of Lexington and Concord were some of the leading military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775.

  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress
    The Second Continental Congress met on May 10, 1775, to plan further responses if the British government did not repeal or modify the acts.

  • Common Sense

    Common Sense
    Common Sense is a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine, advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.

  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence
    By issuing the Declaration of Independence, adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain. The Declaration summarized the colonists' motivations for seeking independence.