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The French and Indian War
In 1763, a worldwide imperial conflict called the Seven Years' War ended. American colonists usually call it the French and Indian War. It began in 1754. In the end, the French and their Indian allies fell to Britisha and colonial forces, leaving England officially in control of the whole part of North America east of the Mississippi River and north of Florida.
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The Stamp Act
In 1765, Parliament followed up the Sugar Act with the Stamp Act, a direct British Tax on a wide variety of printed material. Colonists had to pay the tax whenever they wanted to purchase any of the printed items, because each of thpse documents had to contain the official government stamp. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea imported into the colonies. Townshend hoped the acts would defray imperial expenses in the colonies, but many Americans viewed the taxation as an abuse of power, resulting in the passage of agreements to limit imports from Britain. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occured between a "patriot" mob and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry. -
Tea Act
In May 1773, Parliament passed the Tea Act, which would spark a legendary rebellion in Boston. The Act did not actually impose any new taxes, but sought to save the East India Company by shipping its surplus tea to the colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was organized and carried out by a group of patriots led by Samuel Adams known as the Sons of Liberty.John Adams refers to it as "the Destruction of the Tea in Boston". The demonstrators, some disguised as American Indians, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company, in defiance of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773. They boarded the ship and threw the chests of tea into the Boston Harbor, ruining the tea. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts was the American Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defience in throwing a large tea shipment into the Boston Harbor. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5th to October 26th, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennyslvania, early in the American Revolution. The congress met briefly to consider options, including an economic boycott of British Trade; rights and grievances; and petitioned King George III for redress of those grievances. -
Lexington and Concord
During the wee hours of April 19th, 1775, Britain's General Gage would send out regiments of British soldiers quartered in Boston. Their destinations were Lexington, where they would capture Colonial leaders Sam Adams and John Hancock, then Concord, where they would seize gunpowder. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the Summer of 1775, in Philidelphia , Pennyslvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Publishing of Common Sense
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that inspired people in the thirteen colonies to declare and fight for independence in summer of 1776. The pamphlet explained the advantages of and the need for immediate independence in clear, simple language.
