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French and Indian War
The French and Indian War, also known as the Seven Years' War, was between the times of 1754 and 1763. The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as, the Seven Years' War. The French and Indian War began in 174 and ended with the Treaty of Pars in 1762. It pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France. -
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Stirring of Rebellion
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Proclamation Line 1763
On October 7, 1763, King George III issued a proclamation that forbade colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. In so doing, he hoped to placate Native Americans who had sided against him during the recently concluded Seven Years' War. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act, also known as the American Revenue Act, was a revenue-raising act passed by the British parliament of Great Britain in April of 1764. The earlier Molasses Act of 1733, which had imposed a tax of six pence per gallon of molasses, had never been effectively collected due to colonial resistance and evasion. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Acts were a series of British acts passed beginning in 1767 and relating to the Britsh American colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program. In June 1767 the English Parliament decided to cut British land taxes. In order to make up for the difference and continue to finance their troops in the colonies, Charles Townshend, the British Treasurer, promised her would tax the colonists. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry. The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under attack by a mob. -
Boston Tea Party
On the night of December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. this resulted in the passage of the punitive Coercive Acts in 1774 and pushed the two sides closer to war. The Boston Teas Party was a political protest. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts (also called the Coercive Acts) were harsh laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774. They were meant to punish the American colonist for the Boston Tea Party and other protests. -
Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge.
