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Road to Revolution
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French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was in the 1754 through 1763. The French and Indian War was the North American conflict that was part of a larger imperial conflict 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 -
Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was issued by the British Board of Trade under King George III of England after the French and Indian War in order to accomplish several main goals. The goals were to establish governments for their new territories gained after the war, to encourage peace between colonists and remaining Indians tribes and to keep colonists confined to the coasts for purposes of easier taxation and trade with the mother country. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Act constituted an attempt by the British government consolidate fiscal and political power over the American colonies by placing import taxes on many of the British products bought by Americans, including lead, paper, paint, glass, and tea. -
Boston Massacre
What happened in 1770 was the Boston Massacre where the British Army killed five male civilians and injured six others in the process.. -
Tea Act
A number of the inhabitants diguised as indians boarded the ships in the night broke open all the chests of tea and emptied the contents into the sea. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a protest against taxation. On the night of December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and the sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston Harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts also known as Coercive Acts are the titles referring to the laws that the British Parliament passed in 1774. These laws had something to do with the British colonies in North America. Because of these acts, the Thirteen Colonies were enraged. But at that time they were very much a part of the ongoing uprising of what was the American Revolution. -
Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord marked the start of open conflict between thirteen Colonists and the British. The battle took place April 19th 1775, in Middlesex Country, Massachusetts Bay, near Boston. This battle marked the opening of armed hostilities between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in America. -
Declaration of Independence
The declaration opens with a preamble describing the document's necessity in explaining why the colonies have overthrown their ruler and chosen to take their place as a separate nation in the world.
