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The French and Indian War was a conflict between both France and Britain. France decided to expand into the Ohio River valley causing the British colonies to get upset. With this conflict, a series of battles were fought into order for the declaration to be made. -
The British legislation was trying to end the issue of smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from Dutch West Indies and French. -
The Stamp Act was caused to increase revenues to meet the results of defending the British Empire. -
The Townshend Acts were passed by the British Parliament because they wanted to show what was considered to be its right in history to apply authority over the colonies. -
A very small British army was threatened by mob harassment where they open fire resulting in 5 people to be killed. -
A protest was being set on the taxes of tea (taxation without representation). People boarded ships and dumped thousands of dollars worth of tea into the harbor. -
The British Parliament decided to enact 4 measures in order to get revenge for the colonial resistance to British rule during the winter. -
Due to the Intolerable Acts, the First Continental Congress was created in Philadelphia. All the colonies besides Georgia were represented by 56 delegates. -
The British won against the Americans at the Battle of Bunker hill but this didn’t stop the Americans. Even though they lost, the inexperienced colonial forces caused casualties against the British Forces. -
A man named Paul Revere warned people that the British were leaving Boston to seize the colonial armory at Concord. 700 men met on Lexington Green and it was unsure who started the battle. However, this battle left more than 273 British soldiers and more than 90 Americans killed. -
After the Congress told the colonies to form their own government, Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence as a way of showing the way to justify the actions of the Second Continental Congress.