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Beginning of the French and Indian War
The conflict involved Austria, England, France, Great Britain, Prussia, and Sweden. Another name for this war was the Seven Years War. It was played out in Europe, India, and North America. The English and the French battled for colonial domination in North America, India, and The Carribean. -
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Revolutionary War Timeline
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The End of the French and Indian War
The English Dominated the colonial out posts. The resulting debt of the domination nearly destroyed the English Government. The king made a tax without the colonies consent to try to pay off the debt. The French and Indian War was the beginning of open hostilities between the colonies and Gr. Britain. The colonies were mostly interested in overcoming the French in North America. They appealed to the king for the permission to raise armies and monies to defend themselves. -
Proclomation of 1763
The proclomation closed off the frontier to colonial expansion. The king and his council presented the proclomation as a measure to calm the fears of the indians who felt that the colonists would drive them out of their lands. Many in the colonies felt that the object was to pen them in along the Atlantic seaboard where they would be easier to regulate. The proclomation also established four new colonies. -
The Sugar Act of 1764
The sugar act reduced the rate of tax on molasses from six pence to three pence per gallon. The act also listed more foreign goods to be taxed including sugar, certain wine, coffee, pimiento, cambric and printed calico. The enforced tax on molasses caused the almost immediate decline in the rum industry in the colonies. -
The Currency Act
This act prohibited the issue of any new bills and the reissue of existing currency. The colonies suffered a trade deficit with Great Britain to begin with and argued that the shortage of hard capital would further exagerate the situation. Parliament passed the currency act, effectively assuming control of the colonial system. Parliament favored a "hard currency" system but was not inclined to regulate the colonial bills rather they abolished them. The colonists protested against this. -
The Stamp Act
English citizens in Britain were taxed at a rate that created a serious threat of revolt. It was approved by the lords on March 8th and two weeks later ordered in effect by the king. The Stamp act was Parliaments first serious attempt to assert governmental authority over the colonies. There were a bunch of riots because of the Stamp Act. There were stamps on paper and paper products that are imported. The colonists formed the stamp act congress and started to unite. -
The Declaratory Act
It was an act for better securing the dependency of his majesty's dominions in America upon the crown and parliament of Great Britain. Parliament repealed the stamp act because boycotts were hurting british trade and used the decloration to justify the repeal and save face. It asserted it's complete authority to make binding laws on the American colonies. Each new regulatory act added to the colonists' fear of the parliametnary threat to well-established colonial institutions of self-government. -
The Townshed Revenue Act
This was an act for granting certain duties in the british colonies and plantations in America. There was taxes on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper and tea that were applied with the design of of raising $40,000 a year for the administration of the colonies. The result of that was the resurrection of colonial hostilities created by the Stamp Act. -
Boston non-importation Agreement
The agreement said that they will not send or import from Great Britain. They will not send or imort any goods or merchandise from Great Britain from the 1st of January 1769, to the 1st of January 1770, except for salt, coals, fish hooks and lines, hemp, duck bar lead and shot, wool cards and card wire. They will not purchase of any factor any kind of goods imported from Great Britain from January 1769, to January 1770. -
Boston Massacre
It was a battle in the streets between the "patriots" and a squad of British soldiers. The patriots threw snowballs, sticks, and stones. The riot began when about 50 citizens attacked a British sentinel. The Boston Massacre was a signal event leading to the Revolutionary War. -
The Tea Act
The act was supposed to impose any new taxes. This act would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement. The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies. It was designed to help the East India company which was floundering financially and burdened with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea. The Townshed Revenue was still in place and the tea was supposed to be shipped directly to the colonies. The direct sale of tea would undercut the business of local merchants. -
The Boston Tea Party
The colonists saw through the British plan to encourage tax payment on tea and started advocating boycotts. On December 16 townshed people stormed the ships and tossed 342 chests of tea into the water. They were disguised as native americans so that they weren't identifiable. The damage in American dollars exceeded three quarters of a million dollars, and not one British East India chest of tea sent to the 13 colonies reached it's destination. -
Galloway's Plan
The first continental congress thought it best that the colonies and Great Britain should unite. Galloway came up with a plan for the union of them. When they took the offer to a vote it was rejected six to five. Galloway's plan would have kept the British empire together while allowing the colonies to have some say over their own affairs, like taxation. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
The british's first destination was Lexington. The british wanted to capture the colonial leaders Sam Adams and John Hancock. Spies found out the British's plan and warned the towns. Two lanterns hanging from Boston's North Church meant they were coming by sea. One lantern meant they were coming by land. The british killed seven americans in Lexington. Nearly 240 British soldiers arrived at Lexington. When the british came to Concord the colonial armies were ready for them and made them retreat.
