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The French and Indians went to war with the British over territory
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The Seven Years War was ended with the treaty of Paris 1763
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After Great Britain acquired the French territory in North America, King George issued the Proclamation line of 1763, which forbids any settlement past a drawn line
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Parliament passed a sugar act with required colonial merchants to pay a 6 pence tax per gallon of molasses
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Another act of Parliament that required printed materials to be printed on stamp paper and carry a revenue stamp
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Declaration by the British Parliament that stated that the Parliament's taxing authority was the same as in America.
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Designed to collect revenue from colonists.
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British soldiers fired into a mob and left 5 people dead
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Final act from the British Parliament that put a tax on the sale of tea
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Sam Adams and his crew boarded three ships and threw 342 chests of tea overboard
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The quartering act allowed British soldiers to be given food and shelter
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Laws meant to punish Massachusetts colonists
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A meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies
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Patrick Henry made a speech to the Second Virginia Convention
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First engagements of the revolutionary war
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An attempt to assert the rights of the colonists
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convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that formed in Philadelphia
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George Washington was named commander in chief of the continental army
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A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that advocates the independence from Great Britain to the thirteen colonies.
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The statement adopted by the Second Continental congress
