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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
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The Stamp Act Congress, also known as the Continental Congress of 1765, was a meeting held in New York, New York, consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America
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The Stamp Act of 1765 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp
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The Townshend Acts were a series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies in 1767.
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The American Colonies Act 1766, commonly known as the Declaratory Act, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act
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After months of protest, and an appeal by Benjamin Franklin before the British House of Commons, Parliament voted to repeal the Stamp Act on March 18, 1766
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Tea Act imposed no new taxes on the American colonies
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The Boston Massacre, known to the British as the Incident on King Street, was a confrontation on March 5, 1770 in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston.
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The British parliament repealed the Townshend duties on all but tea. Pressure from British merchants was partially responsible for the change
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The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts
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The Coercive Acts describe a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774, relating to Britain's colonies in North America.
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The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United State
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The Revolutionary War began with the confrontation between British troops and local militia at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, on 19 April 1775.
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The Second Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America which united in the American Revolutionary War
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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
