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French and Indian War
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. -
Stamp Act Congress
was the first gathering of representatives from several American colonies to devise a unified protest against British taxation in New York. -
Stamp Act Passed
A new tax that required a stamp for all printed items including newspapers, legal documents, and even playing cards. -
Stamp Act Repealed
Under all the pressure from the colonies, Britain ultimately decided to repeal the Stamp act in 1766. -
Townshend Acts Passed
Enacted to tax British imports, products shipped from other countries such as glass, tea, lead, paint, and paper. -
Boston Massacre
British soldiers were guarding the Boston custom house, where taxes were collected, when and angry mob began throwing rocks and snowballs at them. Shots rang out, killing five colonists. -
Townshend Acts Repealed
The British parliament repealed the Townshend duties on all but tea. Pressure from British merchants was partially responsible for the change. -
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. The tax on tea had existed since the passing of the 1767 Townshend Revenue Act. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. -
Coercive Acts Passed
The Intolerable Acts also known as Coercive Acts were a package of five laws implemented by the British government with the purpose of restoring authority in its colonies. The first four Acts were passed as reprisal for the rebellion against the 1773 Tea Act that led to the Boston Tea Party Protest, -
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 Philadelphia in 1774. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America which united in the American Revolutionary War. -
Revolutionary war begins
exchanged gunfire at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts. Described as "the shot heard round the world," it signaled the start of the American Revolution and led to the creation of a new nation. -
Declaratory Act Passed
Declaratory Act, (1766), 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. -
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.
