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The official end of the French & Indian War/ Seven Years War between Britain and France.
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Forbid American colonists from settling west of Appalachian Mountains
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Parliament authorizes a tariff on sugar and sugar products
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Forbid the use of colonial currency
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Parliament authorizes the Stamp Act, a direct tax on paper products like newspapers, playing cards, legal documents
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Required American colonies to provide room and board for British soldiers
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Gathering of 9 colonial representatives in New York City that sent a protest letter to Parliament denouncing the Stamp Act
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Parliament authorizes the Townshend Acts to place a tax on glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea
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A confrontation between American colonists and British soldiers results in the soldiers opening fire, killing 5 Americans
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After most of the Townshend Acts are repealed, Parliament retains the tax on tea and grants a monopoly to the British East India Company to exclusively sell tea to the American colonies
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For 3 hours, the Sons of Liberty carefully dump 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act
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the first of the "Intolerable Acts" is passed by Parliament to punish Boston for the "Tea Party"
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Parliament authorizes the Quebec Act granting additional lands to the Canadian colony, lands west of the Appalachain Mountains
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The First Continental Congress begins in Philadelphia. They meet for about 6 weeks to support Boston and attempt to send another letter to King George III to calm down the situation; which does not work.
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Patrick Henry addresses Virginia's House of Burgesses to send representatives to the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia in May.
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While Paul Revere is the most remembered due to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, three men rode through the Boston countryside to warn that the British were marching to Concord, MA
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The Revolutionary War begins as Massachusetts minutemen take up arms against the British Army and drive them back to Boston.
