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French and Indian war ends
For nine years Britain paid a large amount of money to keep colonies safe. After the French and Indian war salutary neglect wasn't economically advantageous anymore. The colonies had become an expensive drain. -
Stamp Act
In 1765, Parliament introduced the Stamp Act, a new tax that required a stamp for all printed items including newspaper, legal documents, and even playing cards. -
Stamp Act Congress
In October 1765, the colonies decided to organize and sent representatives to a meeting in New York City that became known as the Stamp Act Congress. They met to discuss the colonist's rights as British subjects, declaring that only their colonial rights. -
Stamp Act Repealed
People started to protest and they wrote letters and newspaper articles urging colonists to refuse to pay the tax.In Boston, a new political group known as the Sons of Liberty formed and attacked the office and home of the stamp commissioner. By November 1, 1765 when the Stamp Act was to go in effect there were no more commissioners. -
Declaratory Act
Declaratory Act, (1766), declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. Parliament had directly taxed the colonies for revenue in the the Stamp Act (1765). -
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 including the following: New taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot that occurred on March 5, 1770, on King Street in Boston. It began as a street brawl between American colonists and a lone British soldier, but quickly escalated to a chaotic, bloody slaughter. The conflict energized anti-British sentiment and paved the way for the American Revolution. -
Townshend Act Repealed
The Townshend Acts Repealed 1770. The British parliament repealed the Townshend duties on all but tea. Pressure from British merchants was partially responsible for the change -
Tea Act
The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, 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. The tax on tea had existed since the passing of the 1767 Townshend Revenue Act. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773. -
Coercive Act
The Intolerable Acts also known as Coercive Acts were a package of five laws implemented by the British government with the purpose of restoring authority in its colonies. The first four Acts were passed as reprisal for the rebellion against the 1773 Tea Act that led to the Boston Tea Party Protest. -
First Continental Congress
On September 5, 1774, delegates from each of the 13 colonies except for Georgia (which was fighting a Native American uprising and was dependent on the British for military supplies) met in Philadelphia as the First Continental Congress to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts -
Revolutionary War Began
The Revolutionary War was an insurrection by American Patriots in the 13 colonies to British rule, resulting in American independence. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America which united in the American Revolutionary War. -
Declaration of Independence
The United States Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776.
