APUSH chapter 6 By Abbyivey 1713 france cedes acadia to britain 1745 New england capture louisburg 1749 French send an expeditionary force down the ohio river 1753 french begin building forts from lake erie to the ohio 1754 albany congress 1755 british general edward braddock defeated by a combined force of french and indians Britain expels acadians from Nova Scotia 1756 Seven years war begins in europe 1757 william pitt becomes prime minister 1758 louisburg captured by the british for the second time 1759 british capture quebec 1763 Treaty of Paris, pontiac's uprising, proclamation of 1763, paxton boys massacre 1764 sugar act 1765 stamp act and stamp act congress 1766 declaratory act 1767 townshend revenue acts 1768 treaties of hard labor and fort stanwix 1770 boston massacre 1772 first committee of correspondence organized in boston 1773 tea act and boston tea party 1773 intolerable acts, first continental congress, and dunmores war 1775 lexington and concord, second continental congress 1776 Americans invade canada, Thomas Paine's Common sense, Declaration of independance