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The French and Indian War pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France,
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the first gathering of representatives from several American colonies to devise a unified protest against British taxation.
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After months of protest, and an appeal by Benjamin Franklin before the British
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eclaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp act
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The British parliament repealed the Townshend duties on all but tea.
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The tax on tea had existed since the passing of the 1767
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The Boston Massacre, known to the British as the Incident on King Street
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The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston
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Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies.
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The Coercive Acts describe a series of laws passed by the British Parliament
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the First Continental Congress was called to order on September 5th, 1774. 55 colonial
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The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the 13 colonies
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The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper
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The American Revolutionary War was fought from 1775 to 1783.
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in fact, independence was formally declared on July 2, 1776, a date
