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The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution.
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The Stamp Act Congress, which met in New York City from October 7 to 25, 1765, was the first gathering of representatives from several American colonies to devise a unified protest against British taxation.
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The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765.
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Declaratory Act, (1766), declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp 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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The Townshend Acts were a series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies in 1767.
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The British parliament repealed the Townshend duties on all but tea.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 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 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.
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The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773.
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The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States.
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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 American Revolutionary War was fought from 1775 to 1783. It was also known as the American War of Independence.
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The Second Continental Congress met on May 10, 1775 to plan further responses if the British government had not repealed or modified the acts;
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In fact, independence was formally declared on July 2, 1776, a date that John Adams believed would be “the most memorable epocha in the history of America.”
