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The French and Indian war was also known as "The seven year war" started because in the early 1750's France expanded to the Ohio River valley
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The Albany Plan of Union was a place to place British North American colonies under a centralized government.
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The Proclamation of 1763 was a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide.
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British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French to Dutch.
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On March 24, 1765, The British Parliament passed the Quartering Act, one of a series of measures primarily aimed at the raising revenue from the British colonies in America.
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The stamp act of 1765 was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British Parliament.
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The Boston Massacre was a bunch of American colonist that went to the Customs house in Boston and started a brawl in the street between American colonists and a lone British soldier. -
The Boston tea party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. -
The intolerable acts, were four punitive measures enacted by the British Parliament in retaliation from acts of colonial defiance.
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The first Continental Congress convened in Carpenters' hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, between September 5 and October 26, 1774. -
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from 13 colonies that formed in Philadelphia in May 1775, soon after the launch of American Revolutionary War. -
This first battle of the American Revolution, Massachusetts colonists defied British authority, outnumber and outfought the Redcoats and embarked on lengthy war to earn their independence. -
June 17, 1775, early in the Revolutionary War the British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts. -
Thomas Paine argues for American Independence his argument being with more general, theoretical reflections about government and religion.
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June 1775, George Washington promised his wife he would return soon after the Continental Congress, but his fellow delegates had just elected him the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army. -
The Declaration of Independence was a document that was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. -
Fort Ticonderoga controlled access north and south between Albany and Montreal, this made it a critical battlefield of the French and Indian War. -
Philadelphia, the capital of the newly formed nation, was the goal of British General Howe during the campaign of 1777. -
The Battle of Yorktown proved to be the decisive engagement of the American Revolution. The British surrender forecast the end of British rule in the colonies and the birth of a new nation- The United States Of America.