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French and Indian War ends
The Treaty of Paris of 1763 ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France, as well as their respective allies. In the terms of the treaty, France gave up all its territories in mainland North America, effectively ending any foreign military threat to the British colonies there. -
Stamp Act passed
The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed -
Stamp Act Congress
Was the first gathering of representatives from several American colonies to devise a unified protest against British taxation. -
Stamp Act repealed
After months of protest, the Parliament voted to repeal the Stamp Act. However, the same day, Parliament passed the Declaratory Acts, -
Declaratory Act passed
Was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and asserting that the British government had free and total legislative power over the colonies. -
Townshend Act passed
series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies. 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. -
Boston Massacre
a street fight occurred between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry. -
Townshend Act repealed
The colonial boycott of British goods hurt British merchants in London and beyond. They began petitioning the government to overturn the Townshend Custom Duties The government was willing to remove the taxes on everything but tea. Tea, In addition to that fact, the money was needed. More importantly, the British government wished to maintain the principal that their parliament had the right to tax the colonies. -
Tea Act passed
The Tea Act 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 happened in 3 British ships in the Boston Harbor. The Boston Tea Party took place because the colonists did not want to have to pay taxes on the British tea. -
Coercive Act passed
The Coercive Acts were meant to reverse the trend of colonial resistance but actually provoked higher levels of resistance. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States. -
Revolutionary War
British soldiers, called lobsterbacks because of their red coats, and minutemen—the colonists' militia—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. -
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. -
Declaration of Independence
The United States Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
