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French and Indian War 1754- 1763
The French went into the Ohio River Valley and got too clost to the British. They fought a couple of times until the British finally declared war. The new British leader, William Penn, decided this was a good way to build the British empire. -
Proclamation of 1763
King George the third declared all land west of the Appalachian mountains off limits to colonial settlers. Only traders with license can go west or deal with the Indians. Technically, this helped protect from Indian attacks and from white people attacking Native Americans. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp act was thte first internal tax levied directly on American coloniest by th eBritish government. The act imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies, came at a time when the British Empire was deep in debt from the Seven Year's War, an dwas looking to its North American colonies for help. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Act imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea imported into the colonies. It hoped it's acts would cover imperial expenses in the colonies, but Americans thought it was a buse of power, resulting in the passage of agreements to limit imports from Britian. -
Boston Massacre
A mob of American coloniest gathered at the Customs House in Boston and taunted the British soldiers guarding the building. The protestors were mad about the occupation of their city by British troops, who were sent to Boston to enforce unpopular taxation passed by the British Parliament that lacked American representation j. This caused a fight,many people were hurt and put on trial, and in the end, everyone really lost, as raids like this go, but the patriots ended up winning the Revolutionary -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was one of several measures imporsed on the american colonists by the British government that were really indebted in the decade leading up to the American Revolutionary War. The purpose was not to raise income from colonies ,k but to bail out East India company, a priority to the British Economy. In the end, the Parliament responded with harsh treatment intended to break colonial resistance to British rule, two years later the war began. -
Boston Tea Party
This was a protest against taxation. They were sekeking to help the troubled East India company, the British Parliament adjusted import duties with the Tea Act in 1773. on December 16, 1773, SWamual Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded ships on the Boston Harbor and threw 342 barrels overboard. This pushed the two sides closer to war. -
Intolerable Act
A series of British laws passed by the British Parliament. Four intolerable acts were specifically spoken about, mostly by punishing Massachusetts for the Boston Massacre. -
Lexington and Concord
This kicked off the American Revolutionary War. Tensions had been building for many years between the original 13 colonies and British Authorities. On April 18, 1775, hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord to seize an arms cache. Paul Revere and others sounded the alarm, and began mobilizing to intercept Redcoat at column. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was signed July 4, 1776, Written by Thomas Jefferson and adopted by the Second Continental Congress, states the reasons the British colonies of North America sought independence.
