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French and Indian war
War of 7 years between Britain and France. It was a war for land which provided huge territorial gain in North America for Great Britain, but even though it was really expensive for England as the had to defend their American Colonies. -
Stamp Act
British told colonies to contribute with money but they didn’t accept. British parliament wanted to collect taxes from cards, newspapers, and legal papers. This parliament united the most important figures in the colonial societies. -
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Townshend Acts
American Colonies got British government laws, they demanded taxes. The British wanted to start getting money so the best way was by trade and through the colonies. The first placed tax on paper, paint, glass, lead, oil, and tea. Colonists then had an angry reaction. -
Tea Party
British established a law to get money, which consisted of a deal
with the East India Tea Company. East India Tea Company got the right to trade and colonists were forced to trade it because they had payed a tax. -
Boston Tea Part
Protest from American Colonists because of “taxes without representation”. Americans threw 342 chests of tea in the port. -
First Continental Congress
Meeting of the 13 Colonies with 12 delegates, which they discussed the bad acts from the Coercive acts and British Parliament. British wanted to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. -
Second Continental Congress
The delegates from the colonies met again and commanded the Colonial War, they advanced in independency. It adopted the Lee Resolution. -
American Declaration of Independence
The American Declaration of Independence said that the 13 Colonies which were fighting against Britain, were now independent states and for now on they wouldn't be under British rule.
