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1754 to 1763The French and Indian War
The British soldiers had faught agianst the French soldiers and the Native American.The Native American Had got in the battle because they wanted war with the British because they were afriad the british would take over thier land. -
1764 Sugar Act
Colonial merchants had been required to pay a taxs of six pence every gallon because of the corruptionthey mainley envaded the taxes and hoping that the taxes would be cheaper by than. -
1765 Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was given by the British on March 22, 1765. The new tax was on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax to every piece of printed paper they used. -
1774 Intolerable Acts
The government spent immense sums of money on troops and equipment in an attempt to subjugate Massachusetts. British merchants had lost huge sums of money on looted, spoiled, and destroyed goods shipped to the colonies. -
1775 Battles at Lexington and Concord
Dr. Joseph Warren learned of the British plans and sent Paul Revere to alert John Hancock and Samuel Adams. Paul Revere promised to warn them when the British soldiers started to march -
1775 Second Continental Congress
On May 10, 1775, the members of the Second Continental Congress met at the State House in Philadelphia. There were several new delegates including -
1776 Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
Published anonymously by Thomas Paine in January of 1776, Common Sense was an instant best-seller, both in the colonies and in Europe. It went through several editions in Philadelphia, and was republished in all parts of United America. Because of it, Paine became internationally famo -
1776 Declaration of Independence
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. -
1767 Townshend Acts and Boston Tea Party
Taxes on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea were applied with the design of raising £40,000 a year for the administration of the colonies. The result was the resurrection of colonial hostilities created by the Stamp Act.
