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French & Indian War
The French & Indian war is also known as the 7 year war. The war was between great Britain and France the conflict was that they both wanted territory. great Britain gained a lot of territory but also cause taxes making them disconnect. The war ended 1763 because of treaty of Paris. -
Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was there because great Britain gain French territory in North America at the end of 7 year war which forbid all settlements past a line drawn along Appalachian Mountains this was done by King George the 3rd. The proclamation is still legal today to 1st Nations in Canada and is important for the variation of indigenous status in the united states. -
Sugar Act
On April 5, 1764, Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act which was about to expire. as long as they were under the molasses act they had to pay a tax of 6 penny of a gallon important of foreign molasses. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was Forced all American colonist required to pay tax for every printed paper they use. -
Quatering Act
The British parliament and finally passed a Quartering Act for the Americans. troops can only be quartered in camp and if there was no room they were allowed to camp in people houses. -
Townshend act
the British government moves to calm down outraged colonists by cancel most of the section of the hated Townshend Act. The townshend act made it that they had to start an attempt by the British government to combine money and political power over the American colonies by placing import taxes on many of the British products bought by Americans, including lead, paper, paint, glass and tea. -
Boston massacre
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars the attention in american colonies that had been growing since royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts. -
Tea Act
Granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies. This was what ultimately compelled a group of Sons of Liberty members on the night of December 16, 1773 to hide themselves as Mohawk Indians board three ships and anchored them in Boston Harbor and destroyed a lot of tea. -
Boston Tea Party
Sons of liberty hijacked a boat and threw 342 chest of tea off the boat. That led high taxes and threats and a war between to colonies. -
Intolerable Acts
The Patriot's term for a series of punishment laws passed by the British parliament after the Boston tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance of throwing tea shipments into Boston labor. -
First Continental Congress
It was a meeting of deputy from 12 of the 13 colonies that met on September 5. Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
Battles of Lexington & Concord
When British soldiers are sent to take colonial weapons, they run into an untrained and angry militia. This untrained army defeats British soldiers and the surprise victory stregnthen their confidence for the war ahead.