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French and Indian War
My Information The French and Indian war also reffered to as the 7 years war, was a war between the french and british for trade. The briitish wanted to settle on Ohio River Valley to trade with the Indians. But the french had built forts to protect their trade so that the Britihs can't interfere. That made Britain mad, which started the French and Indian war. -
Stamp Act
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=Stamp+ActThe stamp act was a way of the British to gain revenue from the colonies putting taxes on every thing. This is one of the main acts that led to the revolutinary movement against the crown. -
Proclamation of 1763
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/proc63.htmThe Royal Prolcamatiof of 1763 was isued October 7, 1763, by King George the Third. It forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Apalachian Mountains, And opened several ominous barriers and open up a host of new opportuninties for the colonists. -
Townshend Act
http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/townshend-actsThe Townshend Act was a way to gain revenue from the colonies as the british felt that they were entitled to some money. So they began putting taxes on alot of products. The colonists thought of this as an insult and an abuse of power, which resulted in the passage of agreements to limit import from Britain. In 1770, Parliament repealed all the Townshend dutites except the tax on tea, leading to a temporary truce between the two sides in the years before the American Revolution.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-massacreThe Boston Massacre occurred on March 5, 1770. A squad of British soldiers, come to supposrt a senty who was being pressed bya heckling, snowballing, crowd, let loose a colle yof shots. Three people were killed instantaniously and 2 people died later of their wounds. If it weren't for the bell ringing that might not have happned but the church bells was used to signal a fire but someone rang it and more people just came. -
Tea Act
http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/tea-actThe Tea Act of1773 was one of several measures imposed on the American colonists by the heavily indebted British government in the decade leading up to the American Revolutionary War. Because the British were so indebt then they only had one things left to tax because of the treaty and that was tea. -
Boston Tea Party
http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/boston-tea-partyThe famous act of the Boston Tea Party, a major role in the coming of the Revolutionary War, served as a protest against taxation from the british. On the night of December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded threee ships in teh Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea ocerboard. This resulted in the passage fo the punitive Coercive Acts in 1774 and pushed the two sides closer to war. -
Intolerable Acts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intolerable_ActsThe government spent immense sums of money on troops and equipment in an attemp to subjugate Massachusetts. British merhcants had lost hug sums of money on looted spoiled, and destoyed goods shipped to the colonies. -
Lexington and Concord
The battles of Lexington and Concord were the first engagement of teh American Revolutionary War. The were fought on April 19, 1775 in Midesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay. -
Declaration of Independance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_IndependenceThe Declaration of Independance is the statement adopted by the Continental Congress meeting at Philadelphi, Pennsylvania on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen colonies were they're own independant states.
