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French and Indian war ends
The Seven Years' War, a global conflict known in America as the French and Indian War, ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by France, Great Britain, and Spain. -
Stamp act congress
the first gathering of representatives from several American colonies to devise a unified protest against British taxation. -
Stamp Act Passed
The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. -
stamp act repealed
Parliament voted to repeal the Stamp Act on March 18, 1766. However, the same day, Parliament passed the Declaratory Acts, asserting that the British government had free and total legislative power over the colonies. -
Declaratory Act Passed
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. -
Townshed act Passed
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 -
Boston Massacre
British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. The event was heavily publicized by leading Patriots such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams -
Tea Act Passed
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 -
Boston Tea Party
the sons of liberty dressed up as Mohawk Indians boarded British ships in Boston and dumped the cargo's of tea into the harbor. -
Coercive Acts Passed
a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774, relating to Britain's colonies in North America. -
First Continental Congress
a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States. -
Revolutionary War begins
The American Revolutionary War was fought from 1775 to 1783. It was also known as the American War of Independence. The Revolutionary War began with the confrontation between British troops and local militia at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, on 19 April 1775. -
Second continental congress
a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America which united in the American Revolutionary War. -
Declaration of Independence Signed
The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence occurred primarily on August 2, 1776 at the Pennsylvania State House, Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
