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The Mayflower lands at Plymouth Rock -
The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. -
To protect British merchants and creditors from being paid in depreciated colonial currency. -
The Sugar Act reduced the rate of tax on molasses from six pence to three pence per gallon, while Grenville took measures that the duty be strictly enforced. -
England wanted to pay their troops in the colonies, so they passed the Stamp Act. It put a tax on papers, documents, and other stuff. -
raising revenue from the British colonies in America. -
imposed duties on British china, glass, lead, paint, paper and tea imported to the colonies. -
he Boston Massacre was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which British soldiers shot and killed
several people whom they perceived to be a mob. -
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston -
The primary accomplishment of the First Continental Congress was a compact among the colonies to boycott British goods beginning on December 1, 1774 -
Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty”—Henry burst from his imaginary chains and grasped an ivory letter opener—“or give me death!” -
"Paul Revere's Ride" is an 1860 poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that commemorates the actions of American patriot Paul Revere on April 18, 1775, although with significant inaccuracies. -
The Second Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America that united in the American Revolutionary War. -
Introduction. The Continental Congress commissioned George Washington as Commander in Chief of the Continental Army on June 19, 1775. -
The King signed the Charter of Pennsylvania on March 4, 1681, and it was officially proclaimed on April 2.