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French and Indian War
War that lasted for 7 years between Great Britain and France. It provided immense territorial gain in North America to Great Britain. It was a really expensive war for England to defend their American Colonies. -
Stamp Act
British started asking colonies to contribute with money, which colonies didn’t wanted. It was the first try of a British parliament in order to collect taxes from all newspapers, cards, colonial commercial and legal papers, this parliament brought the union of the most important figures of colonial societies. -
Townshend acts
Laws passed from the British government to the American Colonies, in which they demand new taxes, set up new courts to prosecute dealers and the British officials had the right to to search the houses. The British wanted the colonies to start paying for themselves. -
Tea Act
Law established by the British parliament to get money. It consisted in a deal made with the East India Tea Company. The company had the right to trade and deliver their Tea, and the colonists were forced to order, trade, and deliver it because they had payed a tax on the tea which the colonist needed to pay. -
Boston Tea Party
It was a protest from American Colonists that were angry about the British’s rule of “taxes without representation”. In protest mode, Americans threw 342 chests of British tea into the port. -
Intolerable Acts
The intolerable acts consisted on 4 laws that were created by the British as a punish to the people in Massachusetts for throwing the tea into the Boston Harbor. Four of the laws were: the Boston Port Bill closed the Boston Harbor, Massachusetts Government replaced local government with an constituent one, British officials charged with capital offenses were concede the right to be tried in England or another colony and the British troops had the right to dwell in unoccupied buildings. -
First Continental Congress
It was a meeting of 12 delegates of the 13 Colonies in which they discussed the intolerable acts from the British Parliament and the Coercive acts in which British wanted to punish Massachusetts due to the Boston Tea Party. -
Second Continental Congress
The Thirteen delegates from all the colonies met again, and commanded the Colonial War attempt and advanced in independency. It adopted the Lee Resolution that later confirmed the new country on July 2, 1776. -
American Declaration of Independence
After the meeting of the second continental congress, The American Declaration of Independence announced that now the Thirteen Colonies which were fighting against the Kingdom of Britain, were now independent sovereign states and didn’t were under British rule anymore.
