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1754 to 1763 The French and Idian War
The French and Indian war was fought between the English and the French. They fought for colonial domination.The English Defeated the French. -
1764 Sugar Act
On April 5, 1764, Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act which was about to expire. because of corruption, they mostly evaded the taxes and undercut the intention of the tax — that the English product would be cheaper than that from the French West Indies. This hurt the British West Indies market in molasses and sugar and the market for rum, which the colonies had been producing in quantity with the cheaper French molasses. T -
1765 Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. The money collected by the Stamp Act was to be used to help pay the costs of defending and protecting the American frontier near the Appalachian Mountains. -
1767 Townshend Acts and Boston Tea Party
The Townshend Acts put taxes on many materials such as glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea.This lead to the American Revolution because the tax on tea leads to the Boston Tea Party the driving cause of the American Revolution. -
1773 Boston Tea Party.
The Boston Tea Party was a reaction to the Tea Act of 1773 that was passed by Parliament to save the British East India Company from bankruptcy.The Tea Act essentially eliminated all taxes on tea except the three pence Townshend tax. More importantly, it offered Americans tea at a lower price than that of the colonial smugglers. -
1774 Intolerable Acts
the “Intolerable Acts” of 1774, were four exceedingly severe Acts passed in 1774 expressly to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party. The most important of these, the Boston Port Act, closed Boston’s port to all commerce except for food and fuel—and provisions for the Royal army. The Act stipulated that the port could not be re-opened until the colonists had paid for the tea that had been destroyed in the Boston Tea Party. -
1775 Second Continental Congress
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1776 Thomas Paine's Common Sence
Thomas Paine was a political philosipher who wanted change. His Phamplet Common sence was influential to the decelatration of Independence. -
1776 decelaration of independence
Te decelaration was written by five men. It is a statement that all 13 american colonies who were at war with britian regaurded themselves as independent. John Locke was the first to sign the decelaration of independence. -
1775 Battles at Lexington and concord
Their destinations were Lexington, where they would capture Colonial leaders Sam Adams and John Hancock, then Concord, where they would destroy their weapons
