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French and Indian War
The French and Indian War comprised of the north American theater of the worldwide seven years' war of 1756-1763. In the early 1750's France's expansion into the Ohio river valley repeatedly brought into conflict with the claims of the British colonies especially Virginia. With the help of William Pitt the british gained many victories at Louisbourg, fort Frontenac and Quebec. -
Stamp Act
An act of the British parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspaper's and legal and Comercial documents. These acts by the British helped encourage early Americans to stand up to the British in the year 1766 and help fuel the revolution -
Townshend Acts
A series of acts passed by the British Parliament in an attempt to assert what it considered it's historical might to show authority over the American colonies through suspension of a recalcitrant representative assembly through strict provisions for the collection of revenue duties -
Boston Massacre
A squad of British soldiers come to support a sentry who was being attacked by a snowballing crowd shot into a crowd of people and three people were killed immediately and two others later the most famous death was Crispus Attucks the soldier Thomas Preston was arrested for manslaughter along with eight others in which they were all acquitted. -
Boston Tea Party
A political protest by the sons of liberty in Boston. Samuel Adams and the sons of liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard resulting in the coercive Acts in 1774 and further pushed both sides to war -
Intolerable Acts
The American patriots term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British parliament in 1774 after the tea party, meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into the Boston harbor -
1st and 2nd continental congress
Delegates from each of the thirteen colonies except for Georgia met in Philadelphia as the first continental congress to organize Colonial resistance to parliaments coercive acts. -
Lexington and Concord
The battles of Lexington and concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary war. In 1775 British troops were sent to confiscate colonial weapons and they encounter an untrained and angry militia and they defeat 700 British soldiers and in turns helps people gain confidence in the upcoming war -
Publishing of Common Sense
Common sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775-76 advocating independence from Great Britain to the people in the thirteen colonies. Pain wrote the pamphlet in order to make people think about the events that the british was causing and to encourage people to stand up and fight the king for their independence -
Tea Act
The catalyst of the Boston tea party. The act passed by parliament on may 10 1773 granted by the British east India company a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies. The act launched the final spark of the revolutionary movement in Boston. The act had no intention to raise revenue in the colonies and imposed no new taxes -
