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French and Indian War
The colonies was fighting France over control of the land in the Ohio River valley 1754-1763 -
Stamp Act passes
A new tax required a stamp for all printed items including news paper, legal documents and ever playing cards -
Stamp Act Congress
The colonies decidd to send representatives to the new meeting in New York City -
Stamp Act repealed
They elected no representative to Parliament and therefore had not given their consent to any taxes parliament decided to impose -
Declaratory Act passed
This is that it had all power to make laws that were strong enough to keep the people in the colonies under Great Britain's control -
Townshend passed
This taxes British imports, products shipped from other countries such as glass, tea, lead, paint, and paper -
Boston Massacre
British soldiers were guarding the Boston customs house, where taxes were collected, when an angry mod began throwing rocks and snowballs at them. Shots rang out, killing five colonists in the event know as the Boston Massacre -
Townshend repealed
After the Boston Massacre, British mostly repealed the Townshend Acts, but the tax on tea remained. No one liked it and it was causing problems. -
Tea Act passed
This only made tea to come from British East India to the colonies.This is because they were losing money -
Boston Tea Act
The sons of liberty dressed as Mohawk Indians, boarded British ships in Boston, and dumped the cargo of tea into the harbor -
Coercive Acts passed
After the Boston tea party happened, the Parliament punished the Boston rebels. This is also know as the Intolerable Acts -
First Continental Congress
The colonies united behind the belief that their rights were being violated by a would be tyrant the king! Each colony except for Georgia, sent delegates to meet in Pedophilia in 1774 for the First Continental congress -
Revolution War begins
Was a colonial revolt which occurred between 1765 and 1783. The American Patriots in the Thirteen Colonies defeated the British in the American Revolutionary War -
Second Continental Congress
The second Continental Congress, delegates signed the Declaration of Independence -
Declaration of Independence
The 13 colonies became their on country known as The United States of America. They were free from British and were not under their control anymore. MURICA!!!!!
