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Franch Indian war to Declaration
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Franch and Indian War
The Frech and Indian war, or the Seven years war, was the beginning of America's rebelion on the British. The war was fought between the French with the Indians against the British and the colonists. After the war, the colonists gained a new ally in the French. -
Stamp Act
This act put a tax on all items the British sent that had the Stamp tax. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act, also known as the American Revenue Act or the American Duties Act, was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on April 5, 1764. These incidents increased the colonists' concerns about the intent of the British Parliament and helped the growing movement that became the American Revolution. -
TownShend Acts
The purpose of the Townshend Acts was to raise revenue in the colonies to pay the salaries of governors and judges so that they would be independent of colonial rule, to create a more effective means of enforcing compliance with trade regulations, to punish the province of New York for failing to comply with the 1765 Quartering Act, and to establish the precedent that the British Parliament had the right to tax the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
This event angered America. The Boston Massacre was the murder of 5 colonists by British solders.This event shows a bit of salutary neglect. -
Burning of Gaspee
The Gaspée Affair was a significant event in the lead-up to the American Revolution. The HMS Gaspée, a British customs schooner that had been enforcing unpopular trade regulations, ran aground in shallow water on June 9, 1772, near what is now known as Gaspee Point in the city of Warwick, Rhode Island, while chasing the packet boat Hannah. In a notorious act of defiance, a group of men led by Abraham Whipple and John Brown attacked, boarded, looted, and torched the ship. -
Boston Tea Party
This is one of the most-known rebelions by the colonists. They dumps the British tea in the Boston harbor to show that they would no longer pay taxes. -
Tea Act
Though the British could the tea over to America for free, the Townshend Act made the colonists pay taxes on the tea. This is an example of mecantilism. -
1st Continental Congress convenes (Virginia)
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Battle of Lexington & Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.[9][10] They 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, near Boston. The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in the mainland of British North America. -
Bunker Hill
Bunker Hill was one of the first Battles between the British and America. The British won, but lost over 300 troops compared to America's loss of 119. -
Signed Declaration of Independance
The Declaration was signed that stated that America was no longer a British colony, but it's own country, This lead to the Revolutionary war.
