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The French and Indian War
The French and Indian War, also known as the Seven Year's world. The British declared war against the Indians in 1756. The reason The French and Indian war was important to the American Revolution is because it is when the French tried to settle their debts with the Indians. -
Proclamation of 1763
In 1763, at ethe end of the French and Indian War, the British issued a proclamation,mainly intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers. Wary of the cost of defending the colonies, George III prohibited all settlement west of the Appalachian mountains without guarantees of security from local Native American nations. The intervention in colonial affairs offended the thirteen colonies' claim to the exclusive right to govern lands to their west. -
Stamp Act
The stamp act was passed my British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American Colonists and requierd them to may tax on every printed document they used.The issues of taxation and representation raised by the Stamp Act strained relations with the colonies to the point that, 10 years later, the colonists rose in armed rebellion against the British -
Townshend Acts
the Townshend Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. Townshend hoped the acts would defray imperial expenses in the colonies, but many Americans viewed the taxation as an abuse of power, resulting in the passage of agreements to limit imports from Britain. In 1770, Parliament repealed all the Townshend Townshed Acts between the two sides in the years before the American Revolution. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts. -
Tea Act.
It happened to lower the amount of tea to help troubled business.Well, as a result of the tax on tea, the Americans had a thriving black market in imported tea. So the British East India company, in response, slashed their prices in order to compete with the black market tea -
Boston Tea Party
On the night of December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. This resulted in the passage of the punitive Coercive Acts in 1774 and pushed the two sides closer to war. -
Intolerable Acts
Series of laws sponsored by British Prime Minister Lord North and enacted in 1774 in response to the Boston Tea Party. The laws were Impartial Administration of Justice Acts, Massachusetts Bay Regulating Act, Boston Port Act, Quartering Act, and Qubec Act. -
Lexington and Concord
First shots fired between American and British troops, on April 19, 1775. The British chose to march to Concord because it was an arms depot. This meant that the Americans had stockpiled weapons there. British troops had occupied Boston and were marching on Concord as they passed through Lexington. No one is still sure who fired first, but it was the "Shot Heard 'Round the World." Both sides opened fire, and the Americans were forced to withdraw. -
Declaration of Independence
A document that is the greatest symbol that we have which it also shows that we have freedom.
