French and Indian war

  • Ending of the French and Indian war
    1763 BCE

    Ending of the French and Indian war

    This war lasted seven year. Many of the colonist were angry and tired from the war.
  • Sugar act

    Sugar act

    The sugar act was an extension of the molasses act by changing the tax for 6 to 3 cent but putting a stop to smuggling. This angered many colonists because smuggling was a major part of the economy.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    The stamp act was a law put in place my the British where every printed pieces of paper had to have a stamp. That stamp costed money and may were mad about this because it didn’t just affected how much they had to pay for something but how much they could make at work.
  • Declaratory Act

    Declaratory Act

    The Declaratory act was just Britains way of showing the colonies that they could tax them with no representation. Most colonists ignored this and just listened to colonial assemblies.
  • Townshend Act

    Townshend Act

    The act was to stop smuggling and bring more money to Britain. Once again colonist loved to smuggle and they were not happy about this.
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act

    The tea act gave the British East Indian Company the right to be the only tea sold in the colonies. This made the colonist mad because they couldn’t get their tea anywhere else and people needed tea back then.
  • Start of the Revolutionary War

    Start of the Revolutionary War

    The colonist were fed up with the British parliament and want to govern themself. The colonies decided that war was the only why to get freedom from Great Britain.