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French and Indian War
The lasted nine years between France and Great Britain. The Treaty of Pairs ended the war as a result France took over the North America east of the Mississippi River. -
Sugar Act
British aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies and at providing increased revenues to fund enlarged British Empire responsibilities following the French and Indian war. -
Stamp Act
The British tried to raise income through taxation on legal writs, newspaper advertisements, and ships but old of lading. So,e colonists used more harmful methods such as riots, stamp burnings, and intimidation of colonial stamp distributors. -
Townshend Acts
This was a serious of four acts through the British Parliament. The acts were resisted with verbal agitation and physical violence. As a result Parliament dispatched two regiments of British army Boston. -
Boston Massacre
British soldiers opened fire and killed five people after they
left the army. They were charged with murder and given trails. -
Boston Tea Party
Some people from Boston defied to board ships and dump a lot of tea into the harbor to get there point across abhor taxation’s without representation. -
Intolerable acts
The British produced the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration Of Justice, and the Quartering Act. It revised the anger that colonist had felt with the Quartering Act. -
First Continental Congress convenes
56 represented of all colonies except Georgia were in response to the Intolerable Acts. The first continental congress convened in Philadelphia. -
Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death” speech
Patrick Henry’s had strong resolutions for getting the Virginia militia to go against the British. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The first military engagements of the Americans Revolutionary War. The battles were fought in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge -
Battle of Bunker Hill
2,300 cleared the hill of the entrenched Americans but lost more than 40% of the assault force. The battle was a mental victory for the Americans. -
Singing of the Declaration of Independence
It was an office of act taken by all 13 American colonies in declaims independence from British ruling.