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French and Indian War
The French and British fought over land in the Ohio Valley the french got help from most of the Native Americans -
Sugar Act
Required colonist to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British government. -
Boston Massacre
A squad of British soldiers opened fire on a mob and killed 5 people in total the soldiers were persecuted for man slaughter and later acquitted -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest bySamuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty against taxation in Boston, Massachusetts.They threw 342 chests of tea overboard. -
Intolerable Act
Harsh laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774. They were meant to punish the American colonists for the Boston Tea Party and other protests. -
Lexington and Concord
This was the first battle of the American Revolutionary War
