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French and Indian War
The French and Indian War is the North American theater of the Seven Years' War. The war was then fought between the colonies of British America and New France. -
Royal Proclamation of 1763
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III going after Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian war. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act in1765 imposed a direct tax by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, a city in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the tax policy of the British government and the East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts were a series of acts which were passed in 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre,on King Street by the British, was an crucial event which happened on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five civilian men and badly hurt six others. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was an objective was to reduce the big amount of tea held by the financially bad British East India Company for its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts was the name for a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Massachusetts following the Boston Tea party. -
Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is something that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, made themselves independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.
