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French and Indian war ends
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. -
Stamp Act Congress
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. -
Stamp Act Passed
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. -
Declaratory Act passed
Declaratory Act, (1766), declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. -
Stamp Act repealed
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. -
Townshed Act Passed
The Townshend Acts were a series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies in 1767. -
townshed act repealed
The British parliament repealed the Townshend duties on all but tea. Pressure from British merchants was partially responsible for the change. -
Boston Massacre
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. -
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 Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773. -
first Contental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States. -
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. -
Revolutionary War begins
The American Revolutionary War was fought from 1775 to 1783. It was also known as the American War of Independence. -
Second Continental repeal
The Second Continental Congress met on May 10, 1775 to plan further responses if the British government had not repealed or modified the acts; -
Declaration of Independence signed
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.”
