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French and Indian War
(Seven Year War) The English and the French battled for colonial domination in North America, the Caribbean, and in India. -
The Sugar Act
Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act (1733), which was about to expire. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses. -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was Parliament's first serious attempt to assert governmental authority over the colonies. Great Britain was faced with a massive national debt following the Seven Years War. English citizens in Britain were taxed at a rate that created a serious threat of revolt. -
Patrick Henry’s Speech
Henry gave his maiden speech in the assembly and defended his resolutions. He expanded the scope of his criticism to include not only Parliament, but the king as well. -
The Townshend Revenue Act
Bostonians offered no resistance. Rather they changed their tactics. They established non-importation agreements -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a signal event leading to the Revolutionary War -
Boston Tea Party
After officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. -
Beginning of Intolerable Acts
Are names used to describe a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Britain's colonies in North America. -
Paul Revere Rides
The Rides of Paul Revere and William Dawes -
Geroge Washington( Commander of Chief)
Put real backbone into the Revolution and kept it from collapsing or merging into a civil conflict -
Battle of Bunker Hill: The British drive the Americans from Breed’s Hill
The rebels could bombard the town and British ships in Boston Harbor, they misunderstood his orders, they went to Breed's Hill by mistake and entrenched themselves there, which was closer to the British position. -
Declaration of independence
Was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress which announced the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.
