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French and Indian War
http://www.history.com/topics/french-and-indian-warThe French and Indian War lasted for 9 years, 1754 to 1763.The war had started because France had expanded into the Ohio River Valley which lead to conflict. The British had declared war because there Governor Shirley, feared that the French would side with France. There was peace when the British received Canada from Franch and Florida from Spain. It helped the American revolution because it had started taxes. -
Proclamation of 1763
http://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/1763-proclamation-ofAt the end of the French and Indian war in 1763, the British made a proclamation, intended to conciliate the Indians by looking at there encroachment of settlers on their land. It was the first measure to affect all of the 13 colonies. In the United States Proclamation's legality ended with the American Revolution, but its remains part of aboriginal land claims made by Canada's First Nation, Metis and Inuit peoples. -
Stamp Act
http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/stamp-actIt is the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British government. The act was impsed a tax on every paper documents in the colonies. It came at a time when the British Empire was in a deep debt. In 1765 taxes were passed leading to an uproar in the colonies over an issue that was to be a major cause of the Revolution. -
Townshend Acts
http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/townshend-actsA series of measures introduced into the English Parliament by Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend in 1767, the Townshend Acts impsed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea imported into the colonies. In 1770, Parliament repealed all the Townshend duties except the tax on tea, leading to a temporary truce between the two sides in the years before the American Revolution. -
Boston Massacre
http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/boston-massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight on March 5th 1770. It was between a "patriot " mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Some of the colonists were killed. -
Tea Act
http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/tea-actThe tea act was to bail out the floundering East Indai company, a key actor in the British economy.Their resistance culminated in the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773, in which colonists boarded East India company ships adn dumped theri loads of tea overboard. Two years later the war began. -
Boston Tea Party
http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/boston-tea-party
On the night of December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams adn the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston Harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard.That lead the two sides closer to war. Boston Tea Party was for beign against taxation. -
Intolerable Acts
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/intolerable.htmThe Colonists were pressed with greater taxes and so that eventualy brought up the Boston Tea Party. The intolerable Acts was brought up to puish the colonists that followed the Boston Tea Party. -
Lexington and Concord
http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/battles-of-lexington-and-concord
Tensions had been built over the 13 colonies. On April 1775, hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to Concord in order. Many more battles formed, and in 1783 the colonists formally won their independence. The battles of Concord adn Lexington kicked off the American Revolutionary War. -
Declaration of Independence
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/american-colonies-declare-independence
The Congress formally adopted the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson was the principal author of the Declaratio of Independence. It proclaims the independence of a new United states of America from Great Britian and its king.
