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Declaration of Independence

By johnnydyer
  • French and Indian War

    French and Indian War

    Britian won the war, but went broke and had to start taxing the colonists.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    Tax on all paper products
  • Stamp Act Congress

    Stamp Act Congress

    Sent the Declaration of Rights and Grievances to England and repealed the Stamp Act.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    Five colonist were killed throwing rocks and ice at British soldiers
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    On the night of December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard.
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts

    Punishment for the Boston Tea Party ie Quartering Act
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress

    Meet in reaction to the Intolerable Acts. It sent a petiton of rights to King George.
  • Lexinton and Concord

    Lexinton and Concord

    William Dawes and Paul Revere warned the minutemen that the British was coming. The Shot Heard Around the World.
  • Common Sense

    Common Sense

    Thomas Payne encouraged the colonist to break away from England.
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    A New Nation was formed.