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First Navigation Laws to Control Colonial Commerce
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Seven Years' War (French and Indian War) Ends
The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution. -
Sugar Act
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Quartering Act, Stamp Act, Stamp Act Congress
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Declaratory Act
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Townshend Acts, New York legislature suspended by Parliament
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British Troops occupy Boston
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Boston Massacre, All Townshend Acts except tea tax repealed
The Boston Massacre had a major impact on relations between Britain and the American colonists. It further incensed colonists already weary of British rule and unfair taxation and roused them to fight for independence -
Committees of correspondence formed
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British East India Company granted tea monopoly, Governor Hutchinson's action provoke Boston Tea Party
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Intolerable Acts, Quebec Act, First Continental Congress, The association boycotts British Goods
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Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord signaled the start of the American Revolutionary war on April 19, 1775. The British Army set out from Boston to capture rebel leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington as well as to destroy the Americans store of weapons and ammunition in Concord.