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French and Indian War
HistoryThe began in 1756 and it didn't end until 1763. The war lasted a total of seven years. It started when France's expansion into the Ohio River Valley brought repeated conflct with the claims of the British colonies. After they went into war and fought through a series of battles, they ended it with a peace conference in 1763. -
Proclamation of 1763
HistoryAt the end of the French and Indian War, the British issued a proclomation. It was mainly intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on the Indians land. The proclamation was to protect colonists from Indian rampages, the measure was also intended to protect Indians from the frequents attackts from white settlers. -
Stamp Act
HistoryThe Stamp Act was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists. The act came at a time when the British Empire was deep in debt fro the French and Indian War (1756-63). The issues of taxation and representation raised by the Stamp Act strained relations with the colonies at that point. -
Townshend Acts
HistoryThe Townshend Acts was a series of Acts passed by they Parliament of Great Britain. The acts were named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Townshend Acts imposed duties on glass, paper, lead, paints, and tea imported to the colonies. Charles hoped the acts would defray imperial expenses in the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
HistoryThe Boston Massacre happended on March 5, 1770, when a group of British soldiers let loose a volley of shots. The officer i ncharge was arrested for manslaughter, also eight of his men; all of them were later acquitted. The soldires had killed three people and two died later of fatle wounds. -
Tea Act
HistoryThe Tea Act happened in 1773. It was one of several measures imposed on the American colonists by the heavily indebted British government. The Tea Act's main purpose was not to raise revenue from the colonies but to bail out the floundering East India Company. The colonists had never accepted the constitutionality of duty on tea, the Tea act just rekindled their oppositiion to it. -
Boston Tea Party
History The midnight raid was a protest of the British Parliament's Tea Act. The colonists demanded that the tea be returned to England. When Massachusetts Governor Thomas Hutchinson refused, Patriot leand Samuel Adams organized the "tea party" with about 60 memberts of his underground resistance group. The British tea that was dumped in tthe Boston Harbor, was valued at about $18,000. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were passed in 1774 to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party. The first was the Boston Port Bill and it closed the Boston Harbor until the people of Boston paid for the tea that they threw into the harbor. The second was the Massachusetts Government Act which restricted twon meetings to one a year unless the governor approved any more. One more was the Quebec Act, this one extended the Canaidia borders to cut some of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Virgina. -
Lexington and Concord
HistoryTension was building for many years between American colonies and British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts. On April 19, 1775, hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord. Paul revere and other riders sounded the alarm, the colonial militamen began mobilizing to intercept the Redcoat Coloum. They confronted in Lexington and the fighting started. Soon the British were retreating due to heavy fire. More battles followed and in 1753 the colonists won independence. -
Declaration of Independence
HistoryWhen the Revolutionary War in full swing, the movement for independence from Britain had grown, and delegates of the Continetal Congress were face with a vote on the issue. In mid-June, a five-man committee was tasked with drafting a formal statement of the colonies' intentions.
