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French And Indian War
The fighting between the French and the British began in 1754, but war was not officially declared until 1756.he French and Indian War, fought between Britain and France in North America between 1756 and 1763, is also often referred to as the Seven Years' War. France and Britain had already been struggling for control of land in North America, but when France expanded into the Ohio River in 1756, Britain declared war. The French and Indian War was part of a much greater struggle called the Secon -
The Stamp Act
he Stamp Act of 1765 was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British government. The act, which imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies, came at a time when the British Empire was deep in debt from the Seven Years’ War (1756-63) and looking to its North American colonies as a revenue source. Arguing that only their own representative assemblies could tax them, the colonists insisted that the act was unconstitutional, and they resorted to mob violence -
The Tea Act
The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, granted the British East india Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in American colonies. The passing on the Tea Act imposed no new taxes on the American colonies. The tax on tea jad existd since the passing of the 1767 Townshend Revenue Act. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was organized and carried out by a group of Patriots led by Samuel Adams known as the Sons of Liberty. -
Intolerable Act
The Intoerable Act were passed in 1774 to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party. -
American Revolution
The American Revolution was a political battle that took place between 1765 and 1783 during which colonists in the Thirteen American Colonies rejectd the British monarch and aristocracy, overthrew the authority and Great Britain, and founded the United States of America. On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, in which the colonies declared their independence from England.The war ended in 1783, and the United States of America was born.
