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French and Indian War
Also known as the Seven Years’ War. When France’s expansion into the Ohio River valley brought repeated conflict with the claims of the British colonies, a series of battles led to the official British declaration of war in 1756. -
Stamp Act
An Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America. -
Townshend Act
A series of British acts of Parliament passed during 1767 introducing a series of taxes and regulations to fund the administration of the British colonies in America. -
Boston Massacre
A confrontation in Boston in which nine British soldiers shot several people of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them and throwing various projectiles. -
Boston Tea Party
A political protest at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists were mad at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” so they dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
A series of four laws that were passed by British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress convened in Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
These battles were some of the leading military engagements of the American Revolution. The battles were fought in Middlesex County within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge. -
Shot Heard 'Round' the World
This is a phrase that refers to the opening shot of the battles of Lexington and Concord, which sparked the American Revolutionary War.