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French and Indian War
The Seven Years' War (called the French and Indian War in the colonies.) lasted from 1756 to 1763, forming a chapter in the imperial struggle between Britain and France called the Second Hundred Years' War.http://www.history.com/topics/french-and-indian-war -
Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was a British Proclamation that forbade the colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains. This helped lead to the American Revolution because the Colonists felt they had the right to live where ever they wanted, while the British thought that it may lead to another war with the Native Americans if the Colonists tried to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/proc63.htm -
Stamp Act
The stamp Act of 1765 was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British government. The act, which 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 Years' War( French and Indian War) and looking to its Northern American colonies as a revenue source.http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/stamp-act -
Townshend acts
A series of measures introduced into the English Parliament by Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend in 1767, the Townshend Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea imported into the colonies. Townshend hoped the acts would defray imperial expenses in the colonies, but many Americans viewed the taxation as an abuse in power, resulting in the passage of agreements to limit imports from Britian. In 1770, Parliament repealed all the Townshend duties except the tax on tea -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre occured on March 5, 1770. A squad of British Soldiers, come to support a sentry who was being pressed by a heckling, snowballing crowd, let loose a volley of shots. Three people were killed immediately and two died later of their wounds; among the victims was Crispus Attucks, a man of black or Indian parentage. The officer in charge, Capt. Thomas Preston, was arrested for manslaughter, along with eight of his men; all were later acquitted. ttp://www.history.com/topics/americ -
Tea Act
The Tea Act of 1773 was one of the several measures imposed on the American colonists by the heavily indebted British government in the decade leading up to the American Revolutionary War. The act;s main purpose was not to raise revenue from the colonies but bail out the floundering East India Company, a key actor in the British economy. The British government granted the company a monopoly on the importation and sale of tea in the colonies. The colonists had never accepted the constitutionality -
Intolerable Acts
After the French and Indian War the British Government decided to reap greater benefits from the colonies. The colonies were pressed with greater taxes without any representation in Britain. This eventually lead to the Boston Tea Party. In retaliation the British passed several punative acts aimed at bringing the colonies back into submission of the King. http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/intolerable.htm -
Lexington and Concord
The battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, kicked off the American Revolutionary War, Tensions had been building for many years between the residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts.http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/battles-of-lexington-and-concord -
Declaration of Independence
When armed conflict between bands of American colonists and British soldiers began in April 1775, the Americans were ostensibly fighting only for their rights as subjects of the British crown. By the following summer, with the Revolutionary War in full swing, the movvement for independence from Britian had grown, and delegates of the Continental Congress were faced with a vote on the issue. http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/declaration-of-independence
