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French and Indian War
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
was the first gathering of representatives from several American colonies to devise a unified protest against British taxation. -
Stamp Act passed
an act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. -
Declaratory Act Passed
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. -
Stamp Act repealed
Parliament voted to repeal the Stamp Act on March 18, 1766. However, the same day, Parliament passed the Declaratory Acts, asserting that the British government had free and total legislative power over the colonies. -
Townshend Act passed
They placed new taxes and took away some freedoms from the colonists including the following: New taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea. -
Townshend Act repealed
The British parliament repealed the Townshend duties on all but tea. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. -
Tea Act Party
granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party took place because the colonists did not want to have to pay taxes on the British tea, SO they put on costumes and threw the tea on the shore. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress, which was comprised of delegates from the colonies, met in 1774 in reaction to the Coercive Acts, a series of measures imposed by the British government on the colonies in response to their resistance to new taxes. -
Coercive Act Passed
Coercive Acts were a package of five laws implemented by the British government with the purpose of restoring authority in its colonies -
Revolutionary war begins
British soldiers, called red coats, and minutemen—the colonists' militia—exchanged gunfire at Lexington -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress became the government for the colonies at that point. They appointed ambassadors, signed treaties, print money, and request money from the states cause they had no power to tax, which worked during the war cause there was a war but failed after -
Declaration Of Independence Signed
It was an official act taken by all 13 American colonies in declaring independence from British rule. ... The war between the colonies and Great Britain was called the American Revolutionary War
