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French & Indian War Ends
The war lasted for nine long years. British Parliament had been paying a large amount of money to keep the safe and happy -
Stamp Act
This was a new tax that required a stamp for all printed items. It was used to raise money. -
Stamp Act Congress
Colonies decided to organize and send representatives to NYC. This meeting was to discuss their rights as colonies and declaring that only their colonial legislature had the power to tax them. -
Stamp Act Repealed
Men and women began using boycotts, publications, and even violence, they refused to pay tax. They attacked the home and office of the stamp commissioner. -
Declaratory Act Passed
Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act. It had all the power to make laws that were strong enough to keep the people in the colonies under Great Britain's Control -
Townshend Act Passed
These acts were enacted, taxing British imports. These imports were things that couldn't get or easily make for themselves. -
Townshend Act Repealed
Pressure from British merchants was partially responsible for the change. The British government, led by Prime Minister Lord North, maintained the taxes on tea, in order to underscore the supremacy of parliament -
Boston Massacre
This occurred after the taxes were collected, and colonists were very angry. They began throwing rocks and snowballs at them and the soldiers shot, killing 5 colonists. -
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 -
Boston Tea Party
Sons of Liberty dressed as Indians, boarded British Cargo ships in Boston and dumped the tea into the harbor. -
Coercive Acts Passed
Parliament punished the Boston Rebels by passing the intolerable acts. The harbor would be closed until the destroyed tea was paid for, which ended up hurting merchants and people who relied on trade -
First Continental Congress
The colonies united behind the belief that their rights were being violated by a would-be-tyrant. They drafted a petition to the king, naming their grievances, hoping the King would repeal them, which was denied. -
Revolutionary War
The American Revolutionary War, also known as the American War of Independence, was an 18th-century war between Great Britain and its Thirteen Colonies which declared independence in 1776 as the United States of America, and then formed a military alliance with France in 1778 -
2nd Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America which united in the American Revolutionary War. They signed the Declaration of Independence. -
Declaration of Independence Signed
The United States Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
