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Start of the French and Indian War
http://www.history.com/topics/french-and-indian-war Known as the 7 Years war. It is a struggle between Britain and France. -
Proclamation of 1763
https://www.google.com/search?q=french+and+indian+war&safe=active&biw=558&bih=283&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAGoVChMIoML69t7OyAIVAc2ACh0F4w-o&dpr=1#safe=active&q=Proclamation+of+1763 Issued by King George, which forbade a settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
End of the French and Indian War
http://www.history.com/topics/french-and-indian-war This is when the French and Indian War ended. -
Stamp Act
http://www.history.org/history/teaching/tchcrsta.cfm This event was passed by the British Parliament in 1765.This forced people to pay taxes on every single paper they used. The money gained was to help defending and protecting the American Frontier. It wasn't the amount of money the paper had cost that made the colonists mad, its that the standerd the law set. -
Townshed Revenue
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/townshend.htm This act is for granting certain duties in the British Colonies and plantations. This was passed by the Parilament of Great Britian. These acts are named after Charles Townshend. -
Boston Massacre
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/massacre.htm The Boston Massacre was a street fight that began with a Patriot throwing snowballs, stones and sticks, and a squad of British Soldiers. This started with 50 colonists throwing stuff at a British Sentinal. -
Tea Act
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/teaact.htm This act would cause the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. This act was not meant to raise revenue. This was designed to prop up the East India Company. -
The Boston Tea Party
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/teaparty.htm The colonists refused to pay taxes to the British. In reaction to the British sending three ships of tea to their land the colonists got on the boat and threw all of the tea into the sea. Whenever the tea had come back up to the surface the people on boats would just use their oars to push them back under so that they could not be used again. -
Intolerable Act
http://www.britannica.com/event/Intolerable-Acts This act is also called the Coericive Acts. This Act started with four punitive measures enacted by British Parilament. -
Lexington And Concord
http://www.ducksters.com/history/battle_of_lexington_and_concord.php These two battles set off the American Revolutionary War. This was when Paul Revere stepped to tell all colonists that the british are coming. In total of the two battles the British had lost 73 men, and 174 were wounded. The Americans had lost 49 men, and 41 were wounded. -
Declaration of Independence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence This statement was adopted by the Continental Congress. This happened one year after the American Revolutionary War.
