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The war pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France, as well as by Native American allies.
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The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War between Great Britain and France, as well as their respective allies.
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When news of the rebellion reached London, the government decided to put into action a plan for creating a western Indian reserve, and produced the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which forbid colonial settlement beyond the line of the Appalachian Mountains.
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Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act
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The Stamp Act of 1765 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain that imposed a direct tax on the colonies of British America
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declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act.
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Originated by Charles Townshend and passed by the English Parliament shortly after the repeal of the Stamp Act. They were designed to collect revenue from the colonists in America by putting customs duties on imports of glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea.
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The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under intense attack by a mob.
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The Tea Act was the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on her American colonies.
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Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard
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American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party.
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A meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies
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First military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
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John Dickinson drafted the Olive Branch Petition, which was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 5 and submitted to King George on July 8, 1775.
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Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 advocating independence
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a leader of the revolutionary movement in Virginia, a former commander of Virginia's frontier forces, and a British colonial army officer, was commissioned "commander-in-chief of the army of the United Colonies of all the forces raised and to be raised by them" on June 19
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the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
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Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House
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One of the series of Intolerable Acts passed as a reprisal to the Boston Tea Party.
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Patrick Henry was an American attorney, planter and politician who became known as an orator during the movement for independence in Virginia.
