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French and Indian War :1754 – 1763
British Colonist living in the Americas vs The French Colonist, Both sides had Native American Allies, Was about gaining land -
Stamp act:March 22, 1765
New tax for British colonist in the America for use of printed paper -
Townshend act 1767
British tax on paper, lead, tea, paints, glass imported into the colonies -
Boston Massacre: March 5 1770
British army attacked a mob and killed 5 people -
Tea Act 1773
The act's main purpose was to help the struggling East India company, who had a monopoly in the colonies of importing and selling teas, and was a big factor in the mainland British economy. The tea act lead to the Boston tea Party -
Boston Tea Party: December 16 1773
The American sons of Liberty dumped tea into the Boston harbor to protest the tea act and “no taxation without representation”, Lead to the Intolerable Acts -
Intolerable acts 1774
laws passed by Britain to punish the American colonist for the Boston tea party. The five acts were: The Boston Port act, the Massachusetts Government Act, Administration of Justice Act, Quartering Act and the Quebec act -
1st Continental Congress September 5 to October 26, 1774
twelve delegates met in Carpenters’ hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to discuss what their response to the Intolerable Acts -
2nd Continental Congress: May 1775
13 delegates from the colonies met in Pennsylvania to talk about the British Redcoats, The Continental Army was created, the colonies moves slowly toward freedom for Britain. -
Lexington and Concord: April 19, 1775
First battles in the American war of independence, the American army defeated the British army -
Publishing of Common Sense:January 1776
By Thomas Paine, argued to main points; Independent From Britain and the creation of a democratic republic
