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French and Indian War End
The French and Indian War pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France, each side supported by military units from the parent country and by American Indian allies -
Stamp Act Congress
The colonies sent representatives to a meeting in New York City, they met to discuss the colonists' rights as British subject, declaring that only their colonial legislatures had power to tax them. -
Stamp Act Passed
A new tax that required a stamp for all printed items including newspapers, legal documents, and even playing cards. -
Stamp Act Repealed
Men and women began to protest using boycotts, publications, and even violence, under all the pressure from the colonies,Britain decided the stamp act. -
Declaratory Act Passed
The act stated that parliament had all power to make laws that were strong enough to keep the people in the colonies under Great Britain's control, " In all cases whatsoever". -
Townshend Act Passed
The Townshend act was for taxing British Imports, products shipped from other countries such as glass. tea. paint, and paper. -
Townshend Act Repealed
After the Boston Massacre, Parliament repealed the townshend act. -
Boston Massacre
Tensions were high, British soldiers were guarding the Boston customs house, where taxes were collected, when an angry mob began throwing rocks and snowballs at them. Shots rang out, killing 5 colonists. -
Tea Act Passed
The British East Indian Company was losing money selling their tea. Parliament passed the tea act so that the company can sell tea in the colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea. -
First Continental Congress
The 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. -
Coercive Acts Passed
The Coercive Acts describe a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774, relating to Britain's colonies in North America. Passed in response to the Boston Tea Party, the Coercive Acts sought to punish Massachusetts as a warning to other colonies. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was the governing body of the American colonies from 1775 to 1781. It was founded when the British failed to address the grievances of the First Continental Congress and to organize a Continental Army to fight. -
Revolutionary War Begins
The American Revolutionary War, also known as the American War of Independence, was an 18th-century war between Great Britain and its Thirteen Colonies which declared independence in 1776 as the United States of America, and then formed a military alliance with France in 1778. -
Declaration Of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is one of the most important documents in the history of the United States. It was an official act taken by all 13 American colonies in declaring independence from British rule, The war between the colonies and Great Britain was called the American Revolutionary War
