- 
  
  
        The French and Indian War is also known as the seven year war it started due to the conflicting claims between Great Britain and France over territory and waterways - 
  
  
        The Declaratory Act is the repeal of the Stamp Act, It stated that "parliament could make laws binding the American colonies in all cases whatsoever" - 
  
  
        The Stamp Act was the first internal tax charge directed on American colonists by the Britain Parliament - 
  
  
        The Townshend Act initiated taxes on glass, lead, paper, paint, and tea. It was passed to help pay the expenses involved in the governing the American colonies - 
  
  
        The Boston Massacre was a confrontation in Boston in which 5 people died and 2 were fatally injured - 
  
  
        The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred in 1773 due to the colonists being frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing " Taxation without representation" - 
  
  
        The Quartering Act required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies - 
  
  
        A series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for The Boston Tea Party. - 
  
  
        The Second Continental Congress was the late 18th century meeting of delegates from the thirteen colonies that united in support of the American Revolution - 
  
  
        The Battle of Lexington and Concord were some of the leading military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. - 
  
  
        Common sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine a year in a half after he emigrated to Philadelphia from England, Common sense outlined the need for American Independence. - 
  
  
        The Declaration of Independence's main purpose was to explain the colonists rights to revolution