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Begining of the French and Indian War
The English and th French battled for colonial domination in North America, the Caribbean, and in India. The French and Indian War, as it was reffered to in the colonies was the begining of open hostilities between the colonies and Great Britian. The war began as a disagreement on how the British were treating the colonies so that lead to the Ameican Revolution.
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Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation closed the frontier to colonial expansion. he king and his council used the proclamation to calm the fears of the Indians that they would lose their land. The proclamation ended with the American Revolution.
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Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was Parlament's first serious attempt to assert governmental athourity over the colonies. The colonists strongly protested it so they rebelled on March 18, 1776 which helped lead to the American Revolution.
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Townshend Acts
Taxes on gas, paint, oil, and tea were applied with the design of rading 40,000 euros a year for the admisitration of the colonies. This lead to the ressurection colonial hostilities created by the Stamp Act. The Brittish government attempted to tax the colonists without their conscent and the Boston Tea Party and the American Revolution followed.
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Intolerable Acts
After the French and Indian War the British Government decided to cut greater benefits from the colonies. The colonies were pressed with greater taxes without any representation in Britain. As tensions escalated from this event, it broke out the American Revolutionary war.
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Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was the murder of 5 colonists by the Brittish. This was happening due to the tension in the American Colonies over the new taxes law. Depections about the event notably the colored engraving produced by Paul Revere further hightened tension among the 13 colonies which lead to the foreshadowing of the American Revolution.
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Tea Act
The Tea Act was the last straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes by Britain on her American colonies. The policy ignited a “powder keg” of opposition and resentment among American colonists and was the catalyst of the Boston Tea Party.
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Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party took place when a group of patriots started protesting the monopoly on American tea importation approved by the East India Company, seized 342 barrels of tea in a raid on three ships and threw them into the harbor.The crisis escalated, and the American Revolutionary War began.
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Lexington and Concord
British troops had occupied Boston and were heading Concord as they went through Lexington. No one is still sure who fired first, but it was the "Shot Heard 'Round the World." Both sides opened fire, and the Americans were forced to withdraw which lead to the American Revolution
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Declaration of Independance
The Declaration of Independance was adopted by the Second Continental Congress, states the reasons the British colonies of North America sought independence and was written by Thomas Jefferson.The Declaration was a formal explanation of why Congress had voted to declare independence from Great Britain, more than a year after the outbreak of the American Revolution.
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