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French and Indian War Ends
9 year war from 1754-1763 -
Stamp Act Congress
Meeting held between British colony representatives in New York -
Stamp Act Passed
in 1765 parliament introduced the stamp act -
Declaratory Act
stated that British tax was allowed -
Stamp Act Repealed
Vote that canceled the stamp act -
Townshend act passed
new tax on imported goods -
Stamp Act Repealed
canceled imported goods -
Boston massacre
British soilders guarded the tax house -
Tea act passed
The act granted the company the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies without first landing it in England, and to commission agents who would have the sole right to sell tea in the colonies. -
Coercive act
package of five laws with the purpose of restoring authority in its colonies. -
Boston tea party
Sons of liberty sneaked into a ship disguised as Indians and threw crates in to the ocean -
First continental congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States. -
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
American War of Independence during the 18th-century war between Great Britain and its Thirteen Colonies which declared independence in 1776 as the United States of America -
Declaration of Independence
pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776.
