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The French and Indian War was the war between the colonies of British America against New France, each side supported by military units from the parent country and by Native American allies.
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The Sugar Act was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on 5 April 1764.
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The Stamp Act was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies have a stamp on the paper.
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The Declaratory Act was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing of the Sugar Act.
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The Townshend Acts were a series of British acts, named after Charles Townshend, of Parliament passed during 1767 and 1768 relating to the British colonies in America.
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The Boston Massacre was a confrontation on March 5, 1770 in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston.
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The Gaspee Affair was a significant event that led up to the American Revolution. HMS Gaspee was a British customs schooner that had been enforcing the Navigation Acts in and around Newport, Rhode Island in 1772.
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The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest, where they poured tea into the Boston Harbor, by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773.
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The Intolerable Acts were disciplinary laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party.
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
