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The French And Indian War
The French and Indian War was a seven-year-long war between Britain and France (France was allied with the Indians). Although fighting began in 1754, the war did not officially begin until 1756. They were fighting for the control of much of North America. -
The Sugar Act
The Sugar Act started by George Grenville by saying we need more money for the cost of this war. -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act Placed a tax on paper documents in the colonies. Newspapers,legal documents, and even playing cards had to have a special stamp on them to show that the tax had been paid! -
The Townshend Acts
In 1767, Parliament passed the The Townshend Acts, which taxed imports such as glass, tea,paint, and paper brought into the colonies. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre started by a large crowd of angry colonists gathered near several British soldiers. The colonists shouted insults at the soldiers and began throwing rocks and snowballs at them. As the colonists moved forward,the soldiers opened fire.Three colonists were killed on the spot, and two others died later. -
The Boston Tea Party
In 1773, Parliament passed the Tea Act, which gave Britain's East India Company a monopoly on tea. As a result of this monopoly, only the East India Company could legally sell tea for less than colonial merchants could. So East India could not make money in the tea trade. -
The First Continental Congress
On September 5, 1774, delegates from each of the 13 colonies except for Georgia which was fighting a Native American uprising and was dependent on the British for military supplies met in Philadelphia as the First Continental Congress to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts. -
The Coercive Act
The Boston Tea Party greatly angered British leaders. In March 1774,Parliament passed a new set of laws to punish the Massachusetts. The colonists started calling these laws Coercive Acts because people were coerced or forced,to obey the laws -
Lexington And Concord
In April 1775, General Gage heard that Samuel Adams and John Hancock, two leaders of the Sons of Liberty, were meeting in Lexington. Gage also heard that the Minutemen were storing weapons in nearby Concord. He ordered more than 700 British soldiers to march to Lexington and concord. They were to arrest Adams and Hancock and find the weapons. The British wanted their march to Lexington to be a secret. However,Paul Revere, a member of the Sons of Liberty, found out about the plan. -
THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
The American Revolutionary War, also known as The American War of Independence, was a global war that began as a conflict between Great Britain and its Thirteen Colonies which declared independence as the United States of America the war started the same day lexington and concord happened.
