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French and Indian war ends
Salutary neglect wasn't economically advantageous anymore. The colonies had become and expensive drain. The war debs to be paid -
Stamp act congress
They met to discuss the colonists rights as British subjects, declaring that only their colonial legislatures had the power to tax them. -
Stamp Act Repealed
After months of protest, and an appeal by Benjamin Franklin before the British House of Commons, Parliament voted to repeal the Stamp Act on March 18, 1766. However, the same day, Parliament passed the Declaratory Acts, asserting that the British government had free and total legislative power over the colonies. -
Declaratory Act Passed
Stating that it had all power to make laws that were strong enough to keep the people in the colonies under Great Britain's control. -
Townshend Acts Passed
These acts were to tax British imports from other countries like glass, tea, lead, paint and paper. Those were things that colonists had a hard time getting their hands on or making them. A man chose to refuse to pay taxes and his ship was seized by troops. That set of a riot and the council responded by sending troops to the colonists homes. -
Townshend Acts Repealed
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Boston Massacre
Tensions were high and British soldiers were guarding the Boston customs house. Angry mobs began to throw rocks and snowballs at them. Shots were fired and five colonists were killed... that event is known as the Boston Massacre. -
Boston Tea Party
The Sons of Liberty dressed up as mohawk indians and got on the ships in Boston.They dumped 45 tons of tea into the harbor. -
Boston Tea Party
The Sons of Liberty dressed up as mohawk indians and got on the ships in Boston.They dumped 45 tons of tea into the harbor. -
Coercive Acts
The Parlament punished the rebels that caused the Boston Tea Party by passing the coercive acts. This meant the Boston Harbor was closed until all the tea thrown overboard on the harbor is payed for. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America which united in the American Revolutionary War. -
First Continental Congress
When all the colonies except Georgia sent delegates to meet in Philadelphia for the meeting. There were rumors of independence in the air and that's what people wanted -
Stamp Act Passed
A new tax that required a stamp for all printed items including newspapers,legal documents, and even playing cards -
Revolutionary War Begins
The American Revolutionary War, also known as the American War of Independence, was an 18th-century war between Great Britain and its Thirteen Colonies which declared independence in 1776 as the United States of America, and then formed a military alliance with France in 1778 -
Declaration of Independence Signed
It declared that the 13 colonies were cutting off ties with Great Britain and the King. One by one they listed every single grievance they had.
