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The French and Indian War (Seven Years War) was the North American conflict in a large war between Great Britain and France.
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Didnt allow any settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains
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Ended French and Indian War
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Tax on sugar
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a direct tax that required the colonist to buy special paper with stamps on them for important documents
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Stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain.
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Were designed to collect revenue from the American Colonist by putting customs duties on imports of glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea.
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British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonist, killing some and injuring others
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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 colonies had provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations and housing.
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made to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance of throwing a large tea shipment over board (Boston Tea Party).
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A meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies
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convinced the delegates to secede from Britain; to fight back against them. He antagonized Britain by imputing every hardships they faced to Britain
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The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War
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An attempt to assert the rights of the colonists while maintaining their loyalty to the British crown
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Avocation of independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.
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Leader of the revolutionary movement in Virginia, a British colonial army officer, was commissioned "commander-in-chief of the army of the United Colonies of all the forces.
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managed the colonial war effort and moved towards independence,
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The statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House
