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French and Indian War
The French and Indian war started out by the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the seven years war. The French and Indian war began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain with enormus terrtorail gains in North America, but disputes over frontier policy and paying the wars exspences led to colonial dicontent, and ultimatley to the American Reveloution. -
Treaty of Paris
On September 3, 1763 the Treaty of Paris was signed bringing the reveloutionary war to a conclusion.After the signing of the treaty of paris, John Adams infomred congress in a letter dated September 5, 1783 that "on Wednesday the 3rd day of this month, the ministers met the british ministers at his lodgings at the Hotel De York, and signed, sealed, and delivered the definite Treaty of Peace between Great Britain and the nations. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the british parliment on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all americans colonist and required them to pay tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ships papers, legal documents, licenes, newspaper, and other publications and even playing cards were taxed. The actual cost of stamp act was relatively small. What made the law so offensive to the colonists was not so much its immediate cost but the standared seemed to set. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts was a series of acts passed, begginging in 1767, by the Parliment of Great Britian realating to the British colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Echquer, who proposed to the program. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occured on March 5, 1770 between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of Britsh soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act of 1773 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. Its principal objective was to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. A related objective was to undercut the price of illegal tea, smuggled into Britain's North American colonies -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea party initally refered by John Adams as the "distrucction of the tea in Boston was a potential protest by the sons of liberty in Boston on December 3rd. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable acts were the american patriots terms for a series of punable laws passed by the British parliement in 1774 after the boston tea party -
Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Decloration of Independence
The decloration of independence is the statement adopted by the conteiental congress meeting philidepha on July 4th which annouced the 13 colonies.
