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The French and Indian War
The French and Indian war was the final war in a series of wars that had occurred during the 18th century. Also, at the end of all these wars, the British was exceedingly poor from all of the military spending it had encountered. Its solution was to pass a series of taxes in the 1760s and 70s, which caused a furious group of colonists to cry "no taxation without representation -
Proclamation of 1763
The proclamation provided that all lands west of the heads of all rivers which flowed into the Atlantic Ocean from the west or northwest were off-limits to the colonists. -
The 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 many colonists raging of fury to King George III -
The Poston Tea Party
Took place when a group of colonists, were protesting the monopoly on American tea taxation recently granted by the English Parliament , seized 342 chests of tea in a midnight raid on three tea ships and threw them into the harbor. -
First Continental Congress
The first Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, from September 5, to October 26, 1774 All of the colonies except Georgia sent delegates. The Colonies gathered to discuss that t was agreeable to all that the King and Parliament must be made to understand the grievances of the colonies an its citiizens.
