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French and Indian War
http://www.sparknotes.com/history/american/frenchindian/timeline.html
http://www.indians.org/articles/french-indian-war.html
http://www.studymode.com/essays/French-And-Indian-War-Provoked-The-418906.html The French and Indian War started in 1754 and ended in 1763. This war started when both France and Britain claimed territory in the New World. The war caused debts to the British that lead to them raising the taxes. The Americans relized that their rights were being declined. -
Proclamation of 1763
http://quizlet.com/2003914/apush-1763-1775-flash-cards/
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080922094353AAHArWy
http://teachinghistory.org/history-content/ask-a-historian/25374 The Proclamation of 1763 was made to soften the relationship with the natives.It stated that the americans could not cross over the Appalachian Mountians. This really didn't have an effect on the Revolutionary War but it did lead to break out fights. -
Stamp Act
http://www.history.org/history/teaching/tchcrsta.cfm
http://www.history.com/topics/stamp-act The Stamp Act was a tax that the British inposed on the American colonists. They had to pay taxes on every single paper they used. The British were in debt from the Revolutionary war that later resulted in the Stamp Act. -
Intolerable Acts
http://library.thinkquest.org/TQ0312848/inacts.htm March 24, 1765 was the first act was created. The Intolerable Acts were acts made up from the British that were forced on the colonists. King George 3 did this to the colonists as punishment for the tea dumped at the Boston Tea Party. These acts later resulted in the Revolutionary War. -
Townshend Acts
http://www.history.com/topics/townshend-acts
http://history.howstuffworks.com/revolutionary-war/townshend-acts.htm the townshend Acts were a series of acts.They imposed taxes on glass, lead, paper, paints, and tea imported into the colonies. The colonists thought bad of these acts and would refuse to pay them. This would also be a reason leading to the Revolutionary War. -
Boston Massacre
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/massacre.htm
http://www.bostonmassacre.net/academic/essay2.htm The Boston Massacre was a street fight that broke out between the British and a "patriot" mob. This resulted in death to many colonists and historians consider it to be the first battle of the American Revolution. -
The Tea Act
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/teaact.htm The Tea Act was a tax made to the colonists from the British. The colonists didn't like the idea of their earned money being taken away, which lead to war between the two. -
The Boston Tea Party
http://www.history.com/topics/tea-act The Boston Tea Party is known for some colonists boarded East India Company ships and dumped their loads of tea overboard. The Parliament Responded to this in a harsh way and wanted to restain the colonists resistance to the British rule. -
Lexington and Concord
http://www.ushistory.org/us/11c.asp Britian's General Gage had a plan to capture Sammuel Adams and John Handcock from Lexington and take gunpowder from Concord, Gage's plan was spoiled and Paul Revere road off to warn that the British were comming. -
Declaration of Independence
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/ The Declaration was signed after the Revolutionary War. It was made demmanding freedom from the British.
