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French and Indian war Begins
The war began because the British felt they needed to prevent the French from gaining control over trade and territories that the British thought were rightfully thiers. -
French and indian war ends
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The Stamp Act
a tax that required the colonists to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used -
townshends acts
An act that put custom duties on imports of glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight between a patriot mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed -
The Tea Act
The Tea Act was the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on her American colonies. -
The Boston Tea Party
The boston tea party was a protest of the British Parliament’s Tea Act of 1773, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax and granting it a virtual monopoly on the American tea trade.They did so by dumping british tea in to the boston harbor -
Battles Lexington and Concord
They were fought in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston. The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen of its colonies -
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Continental Congress meeting at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies,[2] then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.
