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French and Indian War
A series of military engagements between Britain and France in North America between 1754 and 1763. -
Stamp Act Congress
It lowered taxes on molasses but raised taxes on other things. Also, it was to prevent smuggling. -
Stamp Act Passed
When the stamp act was to go into effect, there were no longer any stamp commissioners left in the colonies to collect the tax. -
Declaratory Act Passed
Declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act -
Townshed Acts passed
The Townshend Acts were a series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. The British Parliament enacted a series of taxes on the colonies for the purpose of raising revenue. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act of 1773 was one of several measures imposed on the American colonists by the heavily indebted British government in the decade leading up to the American Revolutionary War -
Boston tea party
A raid on three British ships in Boston Harbor in which Boston colonists, disguised as Indians, threw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against British taxes on tea and against the monopoly granted the East India Company. -
Coercive Act 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. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States. A plan was proposed to create a Union of Great Britain and the Colonies, but the delegates rejected it. -
Revolutionary war begins
The war for American independence from Britain. -
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. -
stamp act repealed
Parliament voted to repeal the Stamp Act on March 18, 1766. -
Declaration of Independence signed
The Declaration of Independence is defined as the formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain.
